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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. These esteemed members that Bell meets are graduates from which institutions?
(a) Annapolis and Bombay.
(b) Oxford and Cambridge.
(c) West Point and Princeton.
(d) Oxford and Harvard.

2. Victorian England allows Bell the comforts of her family's wealth, but also limits the possibilities in life for woman like Bell for what reasons?
(a) Bright, driven women receive no proposals from equivalent men.
(b) Even bright, driven men seek only women in mother-servant role.
(c) Bright, driven women cannot channel their energies outside academia.
(d) The only occupation for Victorian women outside academia is nursing.

3. What Persian title do the Arabs refer to Bell by which is approximately the equivalent of queen or empress?
(a) Khatula.
(b) Khatun.
(c) Iflak.
(d) Anam.

4. Why is it by the summer of 1889 that Bell's feelings for Lascelles's son wane?
(a) He is not as bright, passionate as she.
(b) They share few common interests.
(c) He buries himself in politics.
(d) He calls upon her less frequently.

5. Bell launches the first of many trips into the desert, taking along only which employees?
(a) A cook and two muleteers.
(b) A cook, a muleteer, and a civilian guard.
(c) A cook, a cameleer, and a civilian guard.
(d) A cook and two cameleers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Between Cairo and Baghdad, where does Bell make stops following her rest in England after the Paris Peace Conference?

3. Bell enters a large house where an Arab woman interrogates her and leaves her in a large room for how long before she may see the Emir Ibrihim?

4. Where does Bell visit with her stepmother's sister in 1889 to develop a social life?

5. On this trip in Chapter 7, who besides Delaere is accompanying Bell?

(see the answer key)

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