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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bond have to make the payoff to the jockey?

2. What does the design of the hotel force the customer to do no matter where he intends to go?

3. Where is Bond taken to?

4. What is the name of the casino Tiffany works at?

5. Who does the telegram say has been in jail for several weeks?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bond try to delay Seraffimo and his men?

2. How does Bond win his money?

3. How does Shady Tree say Bond can get his money?

4. How does Leiter think the jockey wants to throw the race?

5. What problems does Bond cause himself by playing roulette?

6. How does Leither help Bond and Tiffany?

7. How does Bond defeat Seraffimo?

8. What amuses Bond about the hotel?

9. How do the gangsters catch Bond?

10. How does Seraffimo try to force information from Bond?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following and examine how it affects the tone of the novel and helps to express character and theme:

1) Setting

2) Point of view

3) Structure

4) Language

Essay Topic 2

Examine violence in the novel.

1) How do the characters in the novel view violence? Are there any characters that would think twice before shooting or hitting someone?

2) Do the characters need to be violent to cope in the world that Fleming portrays?

3) How do the students think the public reacted to the novel's violence when it was first published? How would the public react to such a book today?

Essay Topic 3

How does Fleming represent American mobsters? Is Fleming's representation of American mobsters is accurate? What part did American mobsters play in American society in the fifties? How have America tried to control the activities of American mobsters?

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