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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Khatun, Chapters 25, 26, 27 and 28.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A few days into her trip, a Druze band attacks Bell's caravan, but who rescues them?
(a) Two sheiks.
(b) Lebanese soldiers.
(c) Lawrence.
(d) Jordanian shepherds.

2. While Cox must leave Baghdad in the summer of 1920, he promises to return to establish a what?
(a) Permanent Arab government.
(b) Provisional Arab government.
(c) Persistent Arab government.
(d) Perpetual Arab government.

3. What location does Bell move onto following this warning to turn back?
(a) Amman.
(b) Oman.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Tripoli.

4. Bell thrills to the possibility of defining a whole new country as she pores over her maps of which areas upon the conclusion of World War I?
(a) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and India.
(b) Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.
(c) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Mesopotamia.
(d) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.

5. Upon returning home, Bell spends how long writing a new book bearing the title Amurath to Amurath?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 15 months.
(d) 18 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Persian title do the Arabs refer to Bell by which is approximately the equivalent of queen or empress?

2. Whose coronation does Bell attend on June 22, 1911?

3. Cox enlists Bell's help in naming Arab Ministers, and Naqib accepts what position in the last part of 1920?

4. Bell's role in Cox's unit is to keep track of Ibn Saud and Ibn Rashid, as well as to monitor whose activities?

5. Along which river does Bell brave wartime skirmishes and blistering heat to travel the area in search of information in Chapter 17?

(see the answer key)

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