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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. In Chapter 2, readers learn Bell attends what school in 1886?

2. Longing to escape her dreary existence in England, when does Bell leave for the East once more?

3. Chapter 14 finds Bell is working for the Red Cross in what location?

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

5. Bell arrives where in November 1913?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires in May 1920?

2. What does the biography find Bell doing at the end of Chapter 5?

3. What is taking place back at Bell's home in England in 1920?

4. Why is Bell mourning an individual in Chapter 4?

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

6. Where is Bell traveling at the beginning of 1902?

7. In what ways is a burgeoning friendship between Faisal and Bell shown?

8. What is the point of Bell's trip to Jerusalem in November 1899?

9. What takes place at the Cairo Conference?

10. What is Bell's status at the start of 1921?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are her British colleagues disgruntled with Bell, while the Arabian people call her their Khatun?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What role did Bell play in the Paris Peace Conference of 1919?

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