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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Turks do at the Sanctuary of Artemis?
(a) Have a yearly festival.
(b) Burn an effigy of a phoenix to symbolize rebirth.
(c) Have the ill come and immerse in the water.
(d) Bring spring water from the site to the ill.

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

3. In what areas of Pascali's life is he capable of going both ways (utriusque capex)?
(a) Religion and sexuality.
(b) Religion and politics.
(c) Religion and politics.
(d) Politics and sexuality.

4. What does Pascali realize he loves as he loves the island?
(a) Grapes and humus.
(b) Grapes and halvah.
(c) Olives and grapes.
(d) Halvah and humus.

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

6. Why does Bowles need translation services?
(a) To convince Lydia to marry him.
(b) To ask for a building permit.
(c) To convince local authorities to give him an access lease to the grounds where the Sanctuary of Artemis is located.
(d) To ask for permission to build a horse arena.

7. What parallel does Pascali see with his report?
(a) The German trade.
(b) The rotting empire.
(c) The island.
(d) The almost-erupting volcano.

8. Of what is Pascali's observation about Hassan a symbol?
(a) For how he must throw his reports into the waters of the Sultan's eyes.
(b) Of how intention does not ensure success.
(c) For how the offspring is an improvement from the former generation.
(d) For the type of detail he must avoid giving in his reports.

9. What does Pascali think is the reason for Bowles' action?
(a) To get rid of evidence of his gluttony.
(b) To have a bit of sport for the afternoon.
(c) To search out a good spot for enemy landings.
(d) To make Pascali jealous.

10. What does Pascali think about the things Lydia does at the dinner table?
(a) That she is erratically inept.
(b) It's all to impress Bowles.
(c) That it is immaculately well mannered.
(d) It's full of faux paus.

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

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

13. What does Pascali think he has found?
(a) A way to break free of the island.
(b) A way to get Bowles off the island immediately.
(c) A way to earn a huge sum of money.
(d) A way to gain Lydia's love.

14. What does Pascali believe about harmony.
(a) That it is unobtainable.
(b) That only the dead understand harmony.
(c) That it works in music but not politics.
(d) That it cannot be attained without discord.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pascali think when he sees what is happening on the shoreline?

2. Of what is Pascali now convinced?

3. To what predicament do Pascali's thoughts return?

4. Who does Pascali wonder might be the leak as to his spy activities?

5. Who is Izzet?

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