Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Janet Wallach
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Bell is ready to make a journey into where in November 1913, but encounters a number of delays?

2. Where is Bell's heading on her next trip in Chapter 7?

3. What sort of student is Bell at this first school away from home?

4. Who is Janet Wallach's work a biography of?

5. Who will Lawrence one day comes to be known as?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Bell fare at Oxford?

2. What transpires when Bell arrives in Damascus in November 1913?

3. What transpires for Bell during the first half of 1918?

4. What does the author show Bell's level of comfort to be in the presence of men?

5. What transpires when Bell arrives back in Damascus in May 1914?

6. What actions does Bell engage in toward the end of Chapter 18?

7. What does Bell do subsequent to the warning by the Turkish soldiers toward the end of January 1914?

8. What is transpiring in Bell's life at the beginning of Chapter 14?

9. What transpires when Bell's caravan reaches Hayil on February 24, 1914?

10. What is Bell writing about during the spring of 1906?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does Bell's stepmother play in her life?

Essay Topic 2

What impact does the death of her mother have upon Bell?

Essay Topic 3

Why is it Bell became the honorary secretary of the British Women's Anti-Suffrage League, when she was the only female to hold political power and influence in building the Iraqi government and shaping British imperial policy in the Middle East? What reasons did she provide to explain this dichotomy?

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