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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. When she embarks in 1909, what knowledge does Bell take with her?
(a) Surveying, geography, and astronomy.
(b) Surveillance, map making, and astronomy.
(c) Surveying, map making, and astrology.
(d) Surveying, map making, and astronomy.

2. Bell reaches what location the day following her release from custody in early 1914?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Riyadh.
(c) Muscat.
(d) Baghdad.

3. In Chapter 10, the reader learns Bell spends the balance of 1911 and 1912 where?
(a) In Tibet.
(b) At home in Baghdad.
(c) In India.
(d) At home in England.

4. 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) Adana.
(b) Constantinople.
(c) Bursa.
(d) Ankara.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it by the summer of 1889 that Bell's feelings for Lascelles's son wane?

2. What adventure does Bell tackle before returning to England in July 1903?

3. Why does Hugh Bell not deem Cadogan to be a fit suitor and refuse to consent to their marrying?

4. Bell will become a spy for which British agency during the First World War?

5. Much of Bell's information is provided by Richard (Dick) Doughty-Wylie who is now living where?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways is a burgeoning friendship between Faisal and Bell shown?

2. What takes place in the autumn of 1924?

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

4. What takes place upon Cox's return to Baghdad in October 1920?

5. How does Bell fare at Oxford?

6. What transpires for Bell between the end of 1913 and the end of January 1914?

7. What troubles occur in Chapter 34?

8. How does Chapter 25 open?

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

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

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