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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. Upon returning home, Bell spends how long writing a new book bearing the title Amurath to Amurath?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 15 months.

2. Bell arrives where in November 1913?
(a) Amman.
(b) Beirut.
(c) Damascus.
(d) Jerusalem.

3. Initially unsuccessful in garnering any marriage proposals, Bell turns to travel and journeys where?
(a) Persia.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Mesopotamia.
(d) Switzerland.

4. When World War I begins, the British have concerns regarding Turkish trade routes to India and what else?
(a) Egyptian petroleum fields.
(b) The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
(c) Persian petroleum fields.
(d) Jordan petroleum fields.

5. What is complicating the British ability in gaining intelligence even a year after the start of the First World War?
(a) The British do not blend in with the indigenous people, culture,and religions.
(b) The British government in India and Egypt are fighting over territory.
(c) The region has many languages, religions, cultural differences, and a lack of trust.
(d) The British have been clashing with people in Middle East for centuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. In May of 1911 Bell meets Thomas Edward Lawrence whose position is what?

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

3. At the start of 1902, Bell makes another trip to the East, stopping where before returning to England by the summer?

4. Where is Bell's heading on her next trip in Chapter 7?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Whom does Bell meet in May 1911 who will become significant later in her life?

2. How and when does Gertrude die?

3. Where does Bell gain her early education?

4. What takes place at the Cairo Conference?

5. Where are some places Chapter 22 reflects Bell is traveling through en route to Baghdad?

6. What is transpiring in Bell's life at the beginning of Chapter 14?

7. What is the outcome when the British government has General Allenby appoint Sharif Hussein's son as the new ruler of Syria?

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

9. What does Bell do in March 1919?

10. What is Bell's plan when facing the challenge of getting Faisal to the throne after the Cairo Conference?

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