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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 types of books do Bond prefer?
(a) Biographies.
(b) Thrillers.
(c) Romance novels.
(d) Sherlock Holmes.

2. What does Bond focus on as he waits at the window?
(a) Sender's advice.
(b) The weeds.
(c) Number 272.
(d) The cello player.

3. What brings Bond to "21"?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) The oyster stew.
(c) The bartender.
(d) The aristocratic company.

4. What does Bond consider about the auto firm he uses?
(a) They is with the KGB.
(b) The driver is with the U.S. Secret Service.
(c) They know where a famous brownstone is located.
(d) They know his true identity.

5. What is Bond's limitation as he goes out for the day in Berlin?
(a) He must disguise his face with glasses and a hat.
(b) Must be in the apartment by five in the evening.
(c) He is not to speak to anyone.
(d) He is not allowed to go to certain neighborhoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is prepared by the time Bond returns to the apartment his first time out?

2. Where is Bond supposed to meet his intended assignment?

3. What is M's attitude when Bond meets with him?

4. What does Bond think of his new weapon?

5. What causes Sender to be nervous the first night of the mission?

Short Essay Questions

1. Bond sets up the rendezvous point at Central park Zoo at a certain house. Why does he find it appropriate to meet his assignment at this house?

2. What kind of man is Captain Paul Sender? What is his character type and how does this fit in his line of work?

3. Describe Times Square in the eyes of James Bond. What does Bond like about the area?

4. Why does Bond fail to kill Trigger despite his perfect aim at the shooting range?

5. Bond assumes his shot scares the living daylights out of Trigger. How is this a dangerous assumption and one that is not good for Bond?

6. How does Fleming show his true feelings about New York throughout the story?

7. What are the purposes of the women's orchestra? Why do they visit the municipal building every night the week Bond has his mission?

8. Why does Fleming have two people involved in Bond's mission? What is Captain Sender's role?

9. How does Bond spend his first free afternoon? How does virtue triumph in this situation?

10. How is "007 in New York" set up differently in its storytelling than the previous three stories in the novel?

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