Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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 quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: A Victorian, Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Bell next goes to stay with the Lascelles at their embassy home in ________, but finds it boring.
(a) Vienna, Austria.
(b) Paris, France.
(c) Berne, Switzerland.
(d) Berlin, Germany.

2. What is Bell's response to spending the winter away from her English home?
(a) She finds the customs and culture to be very similar to those in 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 is particularly taken by customs and culture so different from England.

3. Janet Wallach shows Bell is more comfortable in the company of men, noting it is probably as a result of what?
(a) Her extremely close relationship with her father.
(b) Her unhesitant insistence to approach them as equals.
(c) Her mother dying young and her civil, but distant, relations with stepmother.
(d) Her particularly close relationship with her brother.

4. What is the purpose of Bell's initial trip to Jerusalem?
(a) To study Hebrew and enter the Arabic world.
(b) To study Arabic and enter the Arabic world.
(c) To study Altai and enter the Arabic world.
(d) To study Bodish and enter the Arabic world.

5. Where is Bell's heading on her next trip in Chapter 7?
(a) Islamabad, Pakistan.
(b) Rabat, Morocco.
(c) Delhi, India.
(d) Lhasa, Tibet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Victorian England allows Bell the comforts of her family's wealth, but also limits the possibilities in life for woman like Bell for what reasons?

2. What does Bell do for the next five years following the loss of Cadogan?

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

4. On this 1905 trip, Bell encounters the Druze and is brought the sheik's what to initiate a professional friendship?

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

(see the answer key)

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