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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: The Khatun, Chapters 17, 18, 19 and 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bell launches the first of many trips into the desert, taking along only which employees?
(a) A cook and two muleteers.
(b) A cook, a muleteer, and a civilian guard.
(c) A cook and two cameleers.
(d) A cook, a cameleer, and a civilian guard.

2. 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, Jordan, and Mesopotamia.
(b) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and India.
(c) Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.
(d) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.

3. When World War I begins, the British have concerns regarding Turkish trade routes to India and what else?
(a) Jordan petroleum fields.
(b) Persian petroleum fields.
(c) Egyptian petroleum fields.
(d) The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.

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

5. Bell falls in love with which son of British Minister Frank Lascelles?
(a) Frederick.
(b) Charles.
(c) Billy.
(d) George.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city do Bell and her caravan reach in Chapter 12?

2. Where is Bell's work receiving praise from in early 1917?

3. Why does Hugh Bell not deem Cadogan to be a fit suitor and refuse to consent to their marrying?

4. Following the departure of her mentor, Bell is soon stricken with a bout of which illness?

5. What is complicating the British ability in gaining intelligence even a year after the start of the First World War?

(see the answer key)

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