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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Late in 1919, Bell's superior is furious about her memo regarding what might be possible in a few years, believing Britain should not do anything to risk losing what?
(a) Control over valuable trade routes along the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers.
(b) Strategic military proximity to Persia.
(c) Valuable oil in the Mesopotamian region.
(d) Political dominance over border area with Turkey.

2. Bell thrills to the possibility of defining a whole new country as she pores over her maps of which areas upon the conclusion of World War I?
(a) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.
(b) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Kuwait, and India.
(c) Persia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, and Mesopotamia.
(d) Persia, Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait, and Mesopotamia.

3. When she returns from her week away in the summer of 1918, Bell learns that Cox is leaving for which British consulate?
(a) Hordan.
(b) Syria.
(c) Persia.
(d) Oman.

4. What does Wallach describe as thrilling Bell in Chapter 23?
(a) Returning to Baghdad.
(b) Returning to Tehran.
(c) Returning to Amman.
(d) Returning to Cairo.

5. Following the departure of her mentor, Bell is soon stricken with a bout of which illness?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Smallpox.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 22, following her rest in England, Bell stops in Cairo en route to Baghdad where she takes a meeting with which interior minister?

2. When hearing of Bell leaking the documents in 1920, what does her superior do?

3. By March 1917, the British are in control of which location to which Cox summons Bell?

4. The weather is also a major obstacle for Bell in collecting military intelligence information as the intense heat prohibits what?

5. Bell is in dire need of some time off in the summer of 1918 and leaves to go where for a week?

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