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

2. While thriving on the work as a spy for England, Bell laments the lack of what?
(a) Family.
(b) Opportunity to explore ruins.
(c) Comfortable weather.
(d) Friends.

3. Between Cairo and Baghdad, where does Bell make stops following her rest in England after the Paris Peace Conference?
(a) Amman and Sofia.
(b) Tehran and Islamabad.
(c) Ankara and Palestine.
(d) Palestine and Damascus.

4. When she learns an unrequited love who has gone to war has died in battle, Bell does what?
(a) Dates again after a time, although she never marries.
(b) Plunges into silent depression, which never truly lifts for duration of her life.
(c) Initially buries herself in work, but eventually recovers and is happy.
(d) Mourns his loss, but later meets another man and marries.

5. Bell learns that the Turks, upset over failure to sign a peace treaty with Britain and France, are embracing what in 1920?
(a) Bohemian propoganda.
(b) Tibetan propaganda.
(c) Hungarian propoganda.
(d) Bolshevik propaganda.

Short Answer Questions

1. The weather is also a major obstacle for Bell in collecting military intelligence information as the intense heat prohibits what?

2. A few days into her trip, a Druze band attacks Bell's caravan, but who rescues them?

3. When in 1911 does Bell again leave England for a trip to the East?

4. In what season of 1871 does Mary Bell die of complications giving birth to a son whose name is Maurice?

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

(see the answer key)

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