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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event occurs before dinner in the Arab camp?
(a) Tea time.
(b) Rest time.
(c) Happy hour.
(d) Sunset prayer.

2. The troops traveling with Feisal from Yenbo to the next attack have been with him for _____ months or longer.
(a) Twelve.
(b) Five.
(c) Eighteen.
(d) Six.

3. What is the name of the railroad that supplies the Turks at Medina?
(a) Jehad.
(b) Hesha.
(c) Jidda.
(d) Hejaz.

4. What is Lawrence ill with on the trip from Yenbo to Wadi Ais?
(a) Flu and motion sickness.
(b) Fever and dysentery.
(c) Dysentery and pox.
(d) Pox and fever.

5. After Lawrence leaves Feisal, where does he go on a holiday?
(a) Along the Nile.
(b) Along the Red Sea.
(c) In Dubai.
(d) Along the Gulf of Arabia.

6. What event occurs at the beginning of the day in the Arab camp?
(a) Breakfast.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Exercise.
(d) Call to prayer.

7. Who functions as the historian for the small group of British in Egypt?
(a) Sykes.
(b) Howard.
(c) Smyth.
(d) Hogarth.

8. On what date do Abdulla and Lawrence leave Wadi Ais to go to the front?
(a) March 26.
(b) March 10.
(c) March 6.
(d) March 20.

9. Feisal, after the victory in Wejh, was also referred to as what type of court for western Arabia?
(a) Court of Relations.
(b) Court of Appeals.
(c) High Court.
(d) Court of Feuds.

10. What is the name of the holy book of the Arabs?
(a) Koran.
(b) Hiijab.
(c) Pentateuch.
(d) Bible.

11. There is a secret treaty between England, France, and whom to keep some of the Arab lands after the revolt ends?
(a) Germany.
(b) Austria.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Russia.

12. While in Ageila, Lawrence becomes ill from what?
(a) A scorpion bite.
(b) A tick bite.
(c) A snakebite.
(d) A louse bite.

13. What are Lawrence and the men carrying with them on the march to Akaba so that they can pay others?
(a) Gold chains.
(b) Gold pounds.
(c) Gold nuggets.
(d) Gold notes.

14. At the beginning of the book, the Arab region is part of what empire?
(a) Russian.
(b) Hungarian.
(c) Ottoman.
(d) Greek.

15. When Lawrence arrives at Yenbo for the second time, he finds Garland training the troops in the use of what?
(a) Hand-to-hand combat.
(b) Strategy and tactics.
(c) Subversive activities.
(d) Munitions and explosives.

Short Answer Questions

1. Feisal decides to send Lawrence to his younger brother who just suffered defeat and had to retreat. What is the name of the younger brother?

2. How many days does it take the Turks to restore service on the railroad line after the successful attack?

3. Feisal feels that khaki uniforms symbolize what?

4. On the march to Wejh, Feisal is dressed in what?

5. At the outbreak of World War I, the author was working for a museum at what location?

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