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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. In Chapter 2, what school does Bell attend?
(a) Kingston University.
(b) University of Oxford.
(c) Essex University.
(d) Camelot University.

2. By the end of her second year, Bell is the first woman to achieve first place in Modern History studies, but fails in what?
(a) Passing physics.
(b) Passing calculus.
(c) Securing a husband.
(d) Passing chemistry.

3. At the start of 1902, Bell makes another trip to the East, stopping where before returning to England by the summer?
(a) Lebanon, Syria, and Mauritania.
(b) Algiers, Smyrna, and Jerusalem.
(c) Lhasa, Algiers, and Syria.
(d) Algiers, Syria, and Jerusalem.

4. Bell will become a spy for which British agency during the First World War?
(a) Royal Army.
(b) Royal Marines.
(c) Foreign Office.
(d) MI6, the secret intelligence service.

5. Who is Janet Wallach's work a biography of?
(a) Gertrude Magdalena Lowthian Bell.
(b) Gertrude Maegan Lowthian Bell.
(c) Geraldine Maria Lowthian Bell.
(d) Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell.

Short Answer Questions

1. At age two, what is the name of the Middlesbrough home Bell and her family move to?

2. Although full of conviction, Bell does not carry much power in her initial role as a British spy. Why?

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

4. Who will Lawrence one day comes to be known as?

5. At first, the men Bell meets at the start of Chapter 16 are cautious in their interactions with Bell, but she soon wins them over for what reasons?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Bell gain her early education?

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

3. Chapter 17 opens with Bell's relationship with Lawrence developing in what manner?

4. What is Bell writing about during the spring of 1906?

5. What does Bell do subsequent to the warning by the Turkish soldiers toward the end of January 1914?

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

7. In what fashion is Bell raised?

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

9. While successful academically, how is it Bell fails in Victorian society?

10. What takes place when Bell's white paper is published?

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