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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 does Bell do for the next five years following the loss of Cadogan?

2. In Chapter 2, readers learn Bell attends what school in 1886?

3. Who joins Bell in Turkey?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bell spend her time doing upon returning to England following her trip to the East in the winter of 1909?

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

3. What has Bell learned on this trip between Damascus and Baghdad in early 1914?

4. Where is Bell traveling to at the end of Chapter 6?

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

6. What is Bell's plan when facing the challenge of getting Faisal to the throne after the Cairo Conference?

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

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

9. What transpires in May 1920?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is Bell's role in the establishment of the Baghdad Archaeological Museum?

Essay Topic 2

How was Bell an ally of Lawrence of Arabia, which Wallach notes in the title of her biography of Bell?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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