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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pascali's salary not allow him?
(a) Fine wines.
(b) Transportation services.
(c) A trip to the redlight district.
(d) Fine cigars.

2. What does Pascali say he does to his stories?
(a) Writes them exactly as they happen.
(b) Embellishes them.
(c) Fabricates them entirely.
(d) Gives as little detail as possible.

3. What does Pascali realize Smith's business must be?
(a) Running drugs.
(b) A slaver.
(c) Guns for the rebels.
(d) A very expensive type of crab.

4. Who owns the lands where the Sanctuary of Artemis is located?
(a) The Turkish government.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Pascali.
(d) Mahmoud Pasha.

5. Why do the expensive objects in Pasha's home dismay Pascali?
(a) Because Pascali will never have the like.
(b) Because they are ostentatious.
(c) Because many are fake duplicates.
(d) Because the objects have been obtained through suffering and extortion.

6. What could deaths on the island do?
(a) Turn off trade.
(b) Benefit someone as a bargaining tool or negotiation point.
(c) Increase local unrest.
(d) Bring in the Americans.

7. Who is Herr Gesing?
(a) The cousin to the Sultan through marriage.
(b) The heir to the German beer manufacturer.
(c) A former Nazi.
(d) A German commercial agent.

8. What does Lydia think free expression does?
(a) It encourages imprecision.
(b) It encourages the irrational.
(c) It makes one think the impossible is possible.
(d) It spills over into dangerous areas such as politics.

9. What is the overarching emotion that the newcomer exudes?
(a) Timidity.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Confidence.

10. To what does Pascali compare the sea?
(a) To the depths of one's mind that cannot by plumbed.
(b) To humans, tormented and violent.
(c) To the violence of an assassination.
(d) To the waves of fortune.

11. How does a lack of the true effects of lighting cause Lydia's painting to look according to Pascali?
(a) It makes landscapes seem nearly like hallucinations.
(b) It distorts perspective.
(c) It causes unnatural shadows.
(d) It gives a pastoral glow to the painting that is unreal.

12. What does Politis say to Pascali when they pass on the street?
(a) That Bowles is an English spy.
(b) That Bowles plans to kill Pascali after the negotiations.
(c) That Pascali did not say hello to him as he passed on his way to dinner.
(d) That Pascali had better watch his back.

13. Of what is Pascali now convinced?
(a) That he is about to become very wealthy.
(b) That the volcano is definitely about to spew.
(c) That the newcomer is his half brother he's never met.
(d) That the villagers know of his spy activities.

14. What does Pascali think about him and this recent arrival?
(a) That they are destined never to formally meet.
(b) That their destinies are intertwined.
(c) That they will inevitably kill each other.
(d) That they may fall in love.

15. How does Bowles think the British operate trade?
(a) Based upon their ideals.
(b) Illegally.
(c) Covertly.
(d) Ineptly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bowles claim to Pasha that he has found?

2. From where does Zeki Bey think the rebels obtain money?

3. What happens to the statue in the church on festival day?

4. Of what does Pascali become painfully aware?

5. Of what is the Ottoman empire comprised?

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