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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. What does Bond tell M he will do to let M know that he will do all the bidding in the card game with Drax?

2. How does Drax react when he deals an excellent hand to Bond?

3. What conclusion about Drax does James Bond come to as he thinks about him after stopping the activity at his desk?

4. What do the engineers introduced to Bond do when Drax walks away?

5. What does Drax do when he convinces Bond to continue the card game?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does M want Bond to beat Drax at cards, even if Bond has to cheat?

2. What are the consequences if Drax is caught cheating at cards?

3. Why did Major Tallon, the murdered security officer, call his boss the day before he was murdered?

4. What does Drax mean when he says firing Moonraker would be like committing murder?

5. Why does Drax's identity and life arouse suspicion?

6. What does Bond wonder about the German engineers he is introduced to who then follow Drax away?

7. What is the attitude of London's high society about cheating at cards?

8. When Bond arrives at the Moonraker facility and spends time with Drax, what happens to Bond's opinion of Drax?

9. How is it possible that Drax is not who he claims to be?

10. How does Bond connect Drax's behavior at the card game with his behavior at Moonraker?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Drax's belief about the relationship between England and Germany regarding World War 2? How does Drax's belief about this relationship affect his actions? Explain Drax's statement that all of England has been defeated by just one German.

Essay Topic 2

Name a character, other than the main characters, who is important to the story. Why is the character important? Could the story have been written without this character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Internal conflict affects James Bond at several points in the story. Explain what the conflict is, how Bond attempts to resolve the internal conflict, if the conflict is resolved and how it is resolved, if the conflict is not resolved why it is not resolved, and what you learned about Bond from the internal conflict. How does the resolution or lack of resolution of the internal conflict affect James Bond?

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