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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 does Bell do for the next five years following the loss of Cadogan?
(a) Travels and learns several European languages.
(b) Donates herself to teaching children with handicaps.
(c) Travels, but to no real purpose.
(d) Studies in America, but achieves no additional degrees.

2. In May of 1911 Bell meets Thomas Edward Lawrence whose position is what?
(a) Senior archeologist.
(b) Royal archeologist.
(c) Junior geologish.
(d) Junior archaeologist.

3. What sort of student is Bell at this first school away from home?
(a) Poor.
(b) Excellent.
(c) Average.
(d) Troublesome.

4. On her 1905 trip, what does Bell plan to study and observe so she can share her findings with the English?
(a) Roman and Byzantine ruins and the Bedouin and Druze people.
(b) Bedouine and Byzantine ruins and the Roman and Druze people.
(c) Roman and Byzantine people and Bedouin and Druze ruins.
(d) Bedouine and Byzantine people and Roman and Druze ruins.

5. What adventure does Bell tackle before returning to England in July 1903?
(a) Crossing the Mojave Desert.
(b) Climbing in the Rocky Mountains.
(c) Rafting the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.
(d) Trekking through Baja California.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who meets Bell in her office at the military intelligence agency?

2. What is Bell's response to spending the winter away from her English home?

3. When she learns an unrequited love who has gone to war has died in battle, Bell does what?

4. Bell falls in love with which young man toward the end of Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is taking place back at Bell's home in England in 1920?

2. What transpires when Bell arrives in Damascus in November 1913?

3. What does the author show Bell's level of comfort to be in the presence of men?

4. What does Bell do with King Faisal established on the Iraqi throne?

5. What sort of family is Gertrude Bell born into?

6. What takes place at the Cairo Conference?

7. What aspect of her duties is Bell unhappy about and how does this change?

8. What is among the purposes of Bell's trip in May 1914?

9. Where is Bell traveling to at the end of Chapter 6?

10. What transpires following Cox's announcing Mesopotamia is to be an independent state and his departure?

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