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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. Which of the crew says he is a top notch swimmer?

2. What does Bond recruit Domino to do?

3. What kind of fish does Bond see approaching him?

4. Who does Felix Leiter work for?

5. What does Leiter think is the most likely target for the second bomb?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Domino save Bond's life?

2. What does Leiter work out about Count Lippe?

3. What important information does Domino divulge in this chapter?

4. Why does Largo kill the Russian agent?

5. What does Leiter tell Bond in the hospital room?

6. How does Bond help Domino in Chapter 18?

7. What do Leiter and Bond see when they take a closer look at the sharks?

8. What do Bond and Leiter think are the most likely targets for the bombs?

9. Why does Leiter chastise the barman for the martinis he makes?

10. What does Bond use as his cover when he investigates Leiter's boat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Thunderball is written in the third person. Why do you think Fleming chose to write the story in the third person? How do you think the meaning of the story would of changed if it were written in the first person?

Essay Topic 2

How important it is for a secret agent to have a healthy lifestyle? What kind of lifestyle would someone like Bond have to have in today's society? Were concerns about health and lifestyle, new concerns in the Sixties?

Essay Topic 3

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Fleming use character and dialogue to drive the narrative.

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Aside, from the main character examine the way Fleming uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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