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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. What is the purpose of Bell's initial trip to Jerusalem?

2. 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?

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

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

5. How long does the British government deny Bell passage to the East following the outbreak of the First World War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What troubles occur in Chapter 34?

2. How and when does Gertrude die?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is the point of Bell's trip to Jerusalem in November 1899?

9. How does Chapter 25 open?

10. Where does Bell gain her early education?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What is the outcome of Bell publishing her white paper entitled Review of the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia?

Essay Topic 3

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

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