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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 5 finds Bell traveling to Jerusalem in what month and year?
(a) November 1899.
(b) September 1899.
(c) December 1888.
(d) July 1899.

2. In May of 1911 Bell meets Thomas Edward Lawrence whose position is what?
(a) Junior archaeologist.
(b) Junior geologish.
(c) Senior archeologist.
(d) Royal archeologist.

3. A colleague where needs Bell's knowledge of the Arab countries and her map reading skills and calls for her in the second half of 1915?
(a) Amman.
(b) Rabat.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Tripoli.

4. Much of Bell's information is provided by Richard (Dick) Doughty-Wylie who is now living where?
(a) Serajevo.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Belgrade.
(d) Lhasa.

5. Bell is ready to make a journey into where in November 1913, but encounters a number of delays?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Southern Arebia.
(c) Central Arabia.
(d) Northern Arabia.

6. In what season of 1871 does Mary Bell die of complications giving birth to a son whose name is Maurice?
(a) Winter.
(b) Autumn.
(c) Spring.
(d) Summer.

7. The British Ambassador in which location is eager to learn what Bell had learned about the people and the area on her journey in early 1914?
(a) Constantinople.
(b) Bursa.
(c) Ankara.
(d) Adana.

8. On this 1905 trip, Bell encounters the Druze and is brought the sheik's what to initiate a professional friendship?
(a) Caravan.
(b) Lodge.
(c) Tent.
(d) Palace.

9. What is Bell's response to spending the winter away from her English home?
(a) She is particularly taken by customs and culture so different from England.
(b) She is especially lonely, missing England, her home, and her father.
(c) She thinks that Romania, having only achieved freedom just over a decade before, has little in the way of culture.
(d) She finds the customs and culture to be very similar to those in England.

10. The British government once more seeks Bell out at the start of World War I for her information on the region, and she advises they organize the Arabs against which people?
(a) Turks.
(b) Austrian-Hungarians.
(c) Germans.
(d) Bolsheviks.

11. When Bell continues eastward and across the Pacific, where in North America does she initially land?
(a) Portland.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Juneau.
(d) Vancouver.

12. Bell reaches what location the day following her release from custody in early 1914?
(a) Baghdad.
(b) Beirut.
(c) Riyadh.
(d) Muscat.

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

14. Bell enters a large house where an Arab woman interrogates her and leaves her in a large room for how long before she may see the Emir Ibrihim?
(a) Two hours.
(b) All day.
(c) Half a day.
(d) Four days.

15. Where does Bell visit with her stepmother's sister in 1889 to develop a social life?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Paris.
(c) Bucharest.
(d) Berlin.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a second trip, Bell comes dangerously close to losing her life on a climb up what rocky surface?

2. The British government's concern about the Turkish people is that they will side with which nation if a world war breaks out in 1914 or shortly thereafter?

3. What progressive girls' school in London is Bell sent away to?

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

5. Who joins Bell in Turkey?

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