Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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 test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When she embarks in 1909, what knowledge does Bell take with her?

3. When she learns an unrequited love who has gone to war has died in battle, Bell does what?

4. Chapter 8 finds Bell is active in which movement in England in 1908?

5. Bell reaches what location the day following her release from custody in early 1914?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is among the purposes of Bell's trip in May 1914?

3. What transpires when Bell arrives back in Damascus in May 1914?

4. What takes place upon Cox's return to Baghdad in October 1920?

5. What transpires when Bell's caravan reaches Hayil on February 24, 1914?

6. What takes place in the autumn of 1924?

7. How does Chapter 25 open?

8. While successful academically, how is it Bell fails in Victorian society?

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

10. What transpires for Bell during the first half of 1918?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why during the war was Bell happiest when she was on military missions in the Arab countries?

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

How does a woman of Bell's intellect and thirst for adventure attain her goals when raised in a Victorian Era environment?

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