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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. Bell next goes to stay with the Lascelles at their embassy home in ________, but finds it boring.

2. Bell falls in love with which son of British Minister Frank Lascelles?

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

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

5. When in 1911 does Bell again leave England for a trip to the East?

Short Essay Questions

1. What transpires following Cox's announcing Mesopotamia is to be an independent state and his departure?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. How and when does Gertrude die?

9. What dark cloud looms on the horizon for Bell at the end of Chapter 34?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are her British colleagues disgruntled with Bell, while the Arabian people call her their Khatun?

Essay Topic 2

What sort of relationship does Bell have with her father? How is this reflected in in Wallach's work?

Essay Topic 3

What was Bell's role in the creation of Iraq?

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