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

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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 E

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 2: The Khatun, Chapters 21, 22, 23 and 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 thinks that Romania, having only achieved freedom just over a decade before, has little in the way of culture.
(c) She is particularly taken by customs and culture so different from England.
(d) She is especially lonely, missing England, her home, and her father.

2. Why is Bell active in this movement in 1908?
(a) She values tradition; social movement is counter to her core Victorian beliefs.
(b) She resents male/female inequality.
(c) She favors equal voting rights.
(d) Traditional Victorians favor segregating working and ruling classes.

3. Bell thrills to the possibility of defining a whole new country as she pores over her maps of which areas upon the conclusion of World War I?
(a) Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.
(b) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.
(c) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Mesopotamia.
(d) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and India.

4. Delaere serves Bell in what capacity?
(a) Cook.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Maid.
(d) Secretary.

5. What is Bell's reaction to losing her trusted mentor in the summer of 1918?
(a) Deeply upset.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Bedridden briefly from despair.
(d) Mildly upset.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bell finds herself back in the dreariness of England during which season in 1915 in Chapter 15?

2. By March 1917, the British are in control of which location to which Cox summons Bell?

3. Following the Paris Peace Conference, Bell returns to her home in England to takes a needed rest for how long?

4. Bell falls in love with which son of British Minister Frank Lascelles?

5. In Chapter 13, Bell stays for several weeks before heading in which direction and arriving on May 1, 1914?

(see the answer key)

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