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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the mystery novel idea of Colonel Hakis?
(a) Murder at the Rue Morgue.
(b) The Clue of the Bloody Knife.
(c) The Bloody Shovel.
(d) The Clue of the Bloodstained Will.

2. What city did the Turks and Greeks both rampage in the midst of a war?
(a) Athens.
(b) Moscow.
(c) Istanbul.
(d) Smyrna.

3. How tall does the woman who knows Dimitrios say that he is?
(a) 100 centimeters.
(b) 200 centimeters.
(c) 182 centimeters.
(d) Five foot nine.

4. What is rumored about Colonel Haki?
(a) He is an impostor.
(b) He has killed many men.
(c) He is actually French.
(d) He is the head of the secret police.

5. What does Peters propose to Latimer?
(a) That they form an alliance.
(b) That they schedule a duel.
(c) That they find Dimitrios and kill him.
(d) That they turn themselves into the police.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Muishkin go after he returns the money to Latimer?

2. Where were drugs hidden during a French drug bust in 1929?

3. How many years after the war between Turkey and Greece does Latimer arrive?

4. How much money does Latimer pay the interpreter for the files on Dimitrios?

5. What does the Frenchman, Chamfort, say that chance is a nickname for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Latimer and Marukakis go to meet Irana Preveza? What type of business is this? How does Latimer feel about it?

2. What did Latimer do for the first fifteen years of his adult life? How did this change?

3. Where does Latimer meet his contact in Sofia? What is his name? What language does he speak?

4. What does Peters offer Latimer to drink in his apartment? What does Peters encourage Latimer to do as he tells Latimer his story?

5. How did Grodek eventually friend Bulic? How did he gain control over this man?

6. When Latimer sees the gun in Peters' hand, what goes through his mind? What does he say to Peters? What does this tell us about Latimer?

7. Where does Latimer go when he leaves Istanbul? Why does he go here?

8. Who does Latimer meet when he is in Istanbul? What characteristics does the man have? What does Latimer learn about the man later?

9. What does Latimer do in order to understand where Dimitrios went after he left Smyrna? Where does he conclude Dimitrios went?

10. How did Irana first meet Dimitrios? Why is she mad at him now? What is her reaction to the news of his death?

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