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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. Along which river does Bell brave wartime skirmishes and blistering heat to travel the area in search of information in Chapter 17?
(a) Euphrates.
(b) Tigris.
(c) Nile.
(d) Jordan.

2. What is the main purpose of her month-long trip with her beloved father before returning in the first half of 1920?
(a) To ffer support due to his declining career.
(b) To share his feelings about his wife refusing to leave him.
(c) To bolster his spirits following his wife's death.
(d) To escape political hostilities.

3. What Persian title do the Arabs refer to Bell by which is approximately the equivalent of queen or empress?
(a) Iflak.
(b) Khatun.
(c) Anam.
(d) Khatula.

4. When she returns from her week away in the summer of 1918, Bell learns that Cox is leaving for which British consulate?
(a) Syria.
(b) Hordan.
(c) Oman.
(d) Persia.

5. in the spring of 1918, Bell works under the command of which acting civil commissioner during Cox's absence?
(a) H. St. John Philby.
(b) Arnold T. Wilson.
(c) Gilbert Clayton.
(d) Frank Lascelles.

Short Answer Questions

1. The end of World War I means a tough job ahead for a multitude of people in which nation Bell has been adopting?

2. Bell arrives where in November 1913?

3. January 1914 ends, water and provisions are running low, and who is sent to warn Bell to turn back?

4. Why does Bell leak some secret documents to an influential Arab nationalist in 1920?

5. Which of the King of Syria's brothers is the King of Iraq following the First World War?

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