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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Izzet say he knows about Bowles?
(a) That Bowles has a wife arriving on the next boat.
(b) That Bowles and Smith are associated.
(c) That Bowles does have an advance degree in archeology.
(d) That Bowles used to work for Scotland Yard.

2. What did Pascali fear until recently?
(a) Pasha.
(b) The Sultan.
(c) Izzet.
(d) Death.

3. Why does Bowles want to leave the situation for a few days?
(a) To extort more money.
(b) To find out who is behind Pasha's scheme.
(c) Because he has not finished his research.
(d) To find more artifacts.

4. How is Bowles killed?
(a) The statue crushes him.
(b) He is not killed.
(c) Lydia kills him before she dies.
(d) One of the soldiers stabs him with his bayonet.

5. What does Bowles say to the second offer?
(a) He declines.
(b) He declines but says he may change his mind but needs a day to think on it.
(c) He accepts but says they have to pay him 10 percent of any profit.
(d) He accepts.

6. What happens as Pascali waits at the hotel?
(a) Bowles does not show up.
(b) Pascali witnesses a handoff of a large package from Bowles to Smith.
(c) Bowles arrives but will not speak to Pascali.
(d) Pascali gets drunk.

7. Why does Bowles refuse the offer?
(a) Because he thinks they will not honor their offer.
(b) He says he has had to stop his research and that does not cover his expenses.
(c) Because he is greedy.
(d) Because he has to pay Pascali out of that.

8. Why does Pascali want to leave the island?
(a) To get away from the unrequited love of Lydia.
(b) To save his life.
(c) To go to a cooler climate.
(d) To make his way to Constantinople to find his previous reports.

9. What goes wrong with the meeting?
(a) Izzet does not show.
(b) Bowles does not show.
(c) Pascali is not there to translate.
(d) Bowles brings English soldiers.

10. What is Mannfeldt?
(a) An armament firm of Germany.
(b) A book by Kant.
(c) A ship in the harbor of the island.
(d) A city in Germany.

11. Why are Pasha and Izzet caught in a must-pay situation?
(a) They do not have to pay; they know the authorities will believe them over Bowles.
(b) They know Bowles has the contacts to have them killed.
(c) Not to pay would mean involvement by authorities which would betray their secret.
(d) Because Bowles has kidnapped a child of each of them and holds the child against payment.

12. With whom does Pascali ask to speak?
(a) Bowles.
(b) Izzet.
(c) Lydia.
(d) Pasha.

13. Who meets Pascali on his way home from Dr. Hogan's?
(a) Smith.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Bowles.
(d) Izzet and a large man.

14. When Pascali leads Izzet and the soldiers to the cove, who is dead?
(a) The soldiers Pasha had posted at the site.
(b) No one.
(c) Lydia.
(d) Smith.

15. About what does Pascali warn Bowles?
(a) That someone is stalking Bowles.
(b) That Izzet has secretly called in the Sultan's assassin.
(c) That they are both likely to lose their heads if things are not resolved very soon.
(d) That Pasha has set up an ambush at the site.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pascali see as he's walking home through the market?

2. What does Pascali take from Bowles' room?

3. What does Bowles say about the stranger with whom he was speaking?

4. What does Hogan think "terra rossa" means?

5. How does Pascali view Bowles after the meeting with Izzet?

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