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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What meetings does Pascali stop attending months ago?
(a) Veterans of Foreign Wars.
(b) The Commissioners.
(c) The Literary Society.
(d) The Cabinet.

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

3. What field interests Bowles as he tells Pascali?
(a) Archeology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Geography.
(d) Sociology.

4. How does Pascali think the unity of the Ottoman Empire can be maintained?
(a) Through religious conversion.
(b) Through granting independence to rebellious nations.
(c) Unity can only be maintained through non-mobility.
(d) Through a heavy military presence in all the countries that make up the Empire.

5. What does Pascali say the Sultan needs?
(a) A moral compass.
(b) An annex for his thoughts.
(c) A new chatelaine.
(d) A new direction for the empire.

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

7. 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 gives a pastoral glow to the painting that is unreal.
(c) It distorts perspective.
(d) It causes unnatural shadows.

8. Who is Zeki Bey?
(a) The city mayor.
(b) The newspaper editor.
(c) The school headmaster.
(d) The tax collector.

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

10. What do Lydia and Pascali talk about concerning the boats?
(a) The boats' boarding by the garrison.
(b) The manufacturing of so many new boats.
(c) The way the boats seem to be changing hands.
(d) The sinking of two boats this week.

11. Who is uneasy in Lydia's world?
(a) Pascali and Smith.
(b) Pascali and Izzet.
(c) Bowles and Izzet.
(d) Pascali and Bowles.

12. What does Pascali note about the fisherman Hassan?
(a) That he seldom brings back a full boat.
(b) That his daughter is very attractive.
(c) That he throws his fishing net perfectly into the water.
(d) That he goes to secret meetings every Tuesday.

13. What does Herr Gesing believe about British trade?
(a) That they are less inept than the Turks.
(b) That they only rival the Americans.
(c) That Britain only opposes politics when it is harming their trade.
(d) That they have blundered their way into wealth.

14. Who has recently arrived by boat to the island?
(a) Anthony Bowles.
(b) No one has arrived to this God forsaken place in months.
(c) The Sultan.
(d) Esmeralda Von Trece.

15. What is the current environment on the island like?
(a) Open for new business enterprises.
(b) One of spy activities, broken loyalties, and fears of invasion.
(c) Laidback and peaceful.
(d) Optimistic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sound of bleating sheep mean to Pascali as he is walking?

2. Why do the expensive objects in Pasha's home dismay Pascali?

3. Who is Izzet?

4. What does the crumbling island seem like a metaphor for to Pascali?

5. What does Pascali think he has found?

(see the answer keys)

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