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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. 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.

2. The British Ambassador in which location is eager to learn what Bell had learned about the people and the area on her journey in early 1914?
(a) Ankara.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Adana.
(d) Bursa.

3. Chapter 5 finds Bell traveling to Jerusalem in what month and year?
(a) July 1899.
(b) September 1899.
(c) December 1888.
(d) November 1899.

4. Although full of conviction, Bell does not carry much power in her initial role as a British spy. Why?
(a) She holds an administrative position.
(b) She is a female in a male environment.
(c) She works for British government, not a military officer.
(d) She acts in an unofficial capacity.

5. Janet Wallach shows Bell is more comfortable in the company of men, noting it is probably as a result of what?
(a) Her unhesitant insistence to approach them as equals.
(b) Her extremely close relationship with her father.
(c) Her mother dying young and her civil, but distant, relations with stepmother.
(d) Her particularly close relationship with her brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the winter of 1909 Bell makes her first journey from Syria to what region?

2. Whose coronation does Bell attend on June 22, 1911?

3. On this 1905 trip, Bell encounters the Druze and is brought the sheik's what to initiate a professional friendship?

4. When do Bell and her entourage reach Bombay?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Bell discover upon returning home in June 1923?

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

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

5. What is Bell's role as a member of Cox's Political Staff?

6. Why is Bell mourning an individual in Chapter 4?

7. What happens for Bell when the war comes to an end?

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

9. What transpires for Bell during the first half of 1918?

10. What has Bell learned on this trip between Damascus and Baghdad in early 1914?

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