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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 is Kissy wearing?

2. What music does Bond hear from behind a door?

3. Who finds Bond in the water?

4. What actress do the Japanese compare Kissy to?

5. Where is Vladiostok located?

Short Essay Questions

1. What catch 22 situation does Blofeld put Bond in?

2. Describe Bond's education.

3. Describe Bond's parents.

4. Describe Bond's day with Kissy.

5. Describe how Bond makes his way through the castle?

6. Why does Bond pretend not to know the person in the photograph?

7. What is the legend of the Six Guardians?

8. What does Kissy tell Bond when he wakes up?

9. Why is the castle a taboo subject?

10. How does Bond know Blofeld?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine one of the following aspects of Japanese culture:

1) Attitudes to foreigners

2) Suicide

3) Respect of elders and superiors.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the theme of revenge.

1) In what way is the theme of revenge a general theme in Bond books? Why is it so important to the series and Bond's character as a whole?

2) How does Fleming express the theme of revenge in You Only Live Twice.

Essay Topic 3

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1) What were the main concerns during the 1960s. How does Fleming express these concerns?

2) In what ways do you think the novels meaning would change if it was set in today's society?

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