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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. How does Bond sense trouble from M when he meets with him?

2. Of the listed, which is NOT a place Bond reminisces about?

3. Solange is known to do what after making love with Bond?

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

5. How does Sender handle Bond's work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the crossing point for Number 272. How is the area good or bad for 272, Trigger and Bond?

3. How does Bond compare New York to London and Paris as he ponders his day?

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

5. How are the Americans involved in Bond's mission? What is their reaction and concern?

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

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

8. Bond is first suspicious of a man at the airport. What thrilling story does he propose for the nondescript man?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Miss Freudenstein and how she becomes a double agent. What is her role and why does she do it? What possible reasons does she go against her own mother's fight?

Essay Topic 2

Bond's character comes out here and there between the four short stories in "Octopussy and The Living Daylights." Explain his thought processes and how it matches or contrasts with his external persona. What is the same or different? What is the purpose in having a different exterior to the people he meets? What inner strengths carries through to the exterior?

Essay Topic 3

Common government laws such as that under British, American and Russian rule do not allow murder without punishment. However, each of these governments are fully aware of assignments that include snipers and murders to occur under government departments. According to each of these governments, when is murder necessary? When is it valid?

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