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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Pascali see on the shore line as he passes by?
(a) The fisherman Smith unloading cargo into a small boat.
(b) Two men pretending to fight.
(c) Lydia and Bowles searching the tide pools.
(d) Two gulls fighting over a piece of crab.

3. How does a lack of the true effects of lighting cause Lydia's painting to look according to Pascali?
(a) It distorts perspective.
(b) It causes unnatural shadows.
(c) It makes landscapes seem nearly like hallucinations.
(d) It gives a pastoral glow to the painting that is unreal.

4. Who is Izzet?
(a) A spy for the native islanders.
(b) A Greek shipping tycoon.
(c) Lydia's boyfriend.
(d) Mahmoud Pasha's assistant.

5. Who is uneasy in Lydia's world?
(a) Pascali and Izzet.
(b) Pascali and Smith.
(c) Bowles and Izzet.
(d) Pascali and Bowles.

6. Whose name is spoken softly to Pasha?
(a) Bowles.
(b) Smith.
(c) Pascali.
(d) Gesing.

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

8. Why do the expensive objects in Pasha's home dismay Pascali?
(a) Because the objects have been obtained through suffering and extortion.
(b) Because they are ostentatious.
(c) Because Pascali will never have the like.
(d) Because many are fake duplicates.

9. How has Pascali betrayed himself as a spy unintentionally?
(a) Through his multiple attempts to gain information.
(b) By his copious letters to the Sultan.
(c) Through his coded advertisements on the town board.
(d) He does not know how.

10. What does Pascali think is the reason for Bowles' action?
(a) To make Pascali jealous.
(b) To get rid of evidence of his gluttony.
(c) To have a bit of sport for the afternoon.
(d) To search out a good spot for enemy landings.

11. To what does Pascali compare the sea?
(a) To humans, tormented and violent.
(b) To the depths of one's mind that cannot by plumbed.
(c) To the waves of fortune.
(d) To the violence of an assassination.

12. What does Lydia think free expression does?
(a) It makes one think the impossible is possible.
(b) It encourages imprecision.
(c) It spills over into dangerous areas such as politics.
(d) It encourages the irrational.

13. What does Pascali realize Smith's business must be?
(a) A very expensive type of crab.
(b) A slaver.
(c) Guns for the rebels.
(d) Running drugs.

14. What is the motivating factor in Izzet agreeing to meet with Bowles?
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Officialism.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Money.

15. What does Bowles say when asked by Izzet if he has the contract with him?
(a) He says he has sent it to England.
(b) He says no.
(c) He says yes but that they cannot have it.
(d) He says that the contract and receipt are in a safe deposit with instructions to send them to the British Consul in the event of his death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pascali want to travel to Stambul?

2. How long has Pascali been a paid informer?

3. Who said that motion its self is an illusion.

4. Who needs Pascali's translation services?

5. To what predicament do Pascali's thoughts return?

(see the answer keys)

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