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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what does Pascali blame the Sultan?
(a) For not taking action on any of his previous reports.
(b) For not stopping the masacre of the Armenians.
(c) For telling Pascali he has to come home.
(d) For paying him too little.

2. Of what is Pascali's observation about Hassan a symbol?
(a) For how the offspring is an improvement from the former generation.
(b) For how he must throw his reports into the waters of the Sultan's eyes.
(c) For the type of detail he must avoid giving in his reports.
(d) Of how intention does not ensure success.

3. To whom is Pascali writing?
(a) The Pope.
(b) The Sultan in Constantinople.
(c) His eldest daughter.
(d) His wife.

4. What does Pascali think about him and this recent arrival?
(a) That their destinies are intertwined.
(b) That they may fall in love.
(c) That they are destined never to formally meet.
(d) That they will inevitably kill each other.

5. How does Pascali think the unity of the Ottoman Empire can be maintained?
(a) Through granting independence to rebellious nations.
(b) Unity can only be maintained through non-mobility.
(c) Through a heavy military presence in all the countries that make up the Empire.
(d) Through religious conversion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What parallel does Pascali see with his report?

2. What does Pascali's salary not allow him?

3. To what does he admit concerning the Turks and Greeks?

4. What could deaths on the island do?

5. What does Pascali say he does to his stories?

(see the answer key)

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