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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who joins Bell in Turkey?

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

3. In a second trip, Bell comes dangerously close to losing her life on a climb up what rocky surface?

4. What sort of student is Bell at this first school away from home?

5. Chapter 16 finds Bell in the East disembarking from a what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the biography find Bell doing at the end of Chapter 5?

2. What does Bell learn about unrest subsequent to her return to Baghdad following the Paris Peace Conference?

3. Who is Bell with in the summer of 1900?

4. What takes place in the autumn of 1915 to take Bell from her dreariness in England?

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

6. What does Bell do with King Faisal established on the Iraqi throne?

7. What does author Janet Wallach establish in the opening chapters of the book?

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

9. What transpires when Bell's caravan reaches Hayil on February 24, 1914?

10. What is the purpose of Bell's journey in the winter of 1909?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it Bell became the honorary secretary of the British Women's Anti-Suffrage League, when she was the only female to hold political power and influence in building the Iraqi government and shaping British imperial policy in the Middle East? What reasons did she provide to explain this dichotomy?

Essay Topic 2

Why was Bell the recipient of awards coming from both the British Parliament and the Royal Geographical Society?

Essay Topic 3

Why in the autumn of 1915 does Bell receive an invitation from a colleague stationed in Cairo?

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