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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Colonel's response to Gonzales' proposal?
(a) "You'll have to do better than that."
(b) "I'll make you an offer you can't refuse."
(c) "The property is not for sale."
(d) "I would sell it for half as much!"

2. What does Colonel Havelock do after Major Gonzales introduces his "secretaries"?
(a) The Colonel stands and offers everyone a drink.
(b) The Colonel loads his pipe, lights it, and removes a pistol from the pocket of his blazer.
(c) The Colonel stands and excuses himself to a pressing engagement.
(d) The Colonel loads his pipe and wonders how he can manouver these men to his study where he keeps his revolver.

3. What must the members of a couple preserve in order to survive adversity?
(a) Their wedding vows.
(b) Their wedding pictures.
(c) Their high esteem of one another.
(d) Their common humanity.

4. What is Major Gonzales's business with the Havelocks?
(a) The Major is dropping by for a casual visit.
(b) The Major wishes to purchase Content for a generous sum.
(c) The Major wishes to purchase Content for an insulting sum.
(d) The Major wishes to settle a matter of personal honor with the Havelocks.

5. What first alerts Bond to activity in the house on Echo Lake?
(a) A maid tolls a bell calling everyone to breakfast.
(b) Maids begin setting the patio for breakfast.
(c) A column of smoke rises from a chimney.
(d) A white blind rolls up in a window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mrs. Havelock call "the most dreadful show-offs"?

2. How does Bond lure the assassin to him?

3. What does Judy give Bond before proceeding with her plan?

4. Where is Nassau?

5. How does the assassin cover his tracks?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comes of Rhoda's relationship with Tattersall?

2. What is the nature of Bond's displeasure with his flight to Montreal?

3. What does M mean when he says that every man in the fleet knows what to do except the commanding admiral?

4. How does Mary Ann Russell drive?

5. Describe Bond's first meeting with Judy Havelock.

6. Besides murdering her parents, what else do Von Hammerstein and his goons do to threaten Judy?

7. Describe Echo Lake.

8. Describe the appearance of the assassin in the first chapter of the book.

9. What is a "crash dive"?

10. After killing the first spy, what gets Bond into trouble when he tries to deal with the others?

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