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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. What do Marukakis and Latimer drink during lunch?

2. What kind of gun does Mr. Peters have?

3. What is Dimitrios' last name?

4. What city did the Turks and Greeks both rampage in the midst of a war?

5. What business does Marukakis suspect was behind the coup d'etat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helps Latimer find the refugee records of Dimitrios? What name does Latimer find him under?

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

3. Where does Latimer stay when he arrives in Istanbul? What are the conditions of his lodging place?

4. Where does Latimer go after Sofia? Who does he meet there?

5. What does Mr. Peters' apartment look like? What does Peters show Latimer in his closet?

6. When Latimer first reaches Paris, what kind of research does he do? What does he find out?

7. Where does the identification card from Dimitrios' refugee records say he was born? What crime does it say he committed?

8. Who was Peters in business with when he first met Dimitrios? What was his first impression of Dimitrios?

9. What happened to Bulic at the end of Grodek's story? Bulic's wife?

10. What history is told about the city of Smyrna? Who took ultimate control of the city? What did they do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the history of the city of Smyrna. Why do you think the author chose to include this long history in the novel? How is it essential to the plot? Make sure you work closely with the text.

Essay Topic 2

Think about Peters' relationship with Dimitrios. Write an essay about the business between Dimitrios and Peters, paying special attention to Peters' descriptions of Dimitrios. What were the warning signs that Dimitrios was going to double-cross him?

Essay Topic 3

Think about the character of Wladyslaw Grodek. What influences does Grodek have on Latimer? How is he connected to Dimitrios? Write an essay on the character of Grodek and his involvement in the plot in the novel.

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