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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Pascali visit Dr. Hogan?
(a) Pascali needs a kind conversation and information.
(b) Because his eyesight is getting worse.
(c) To relate to someone who is honest.
(d) To get a shot and information.

2. What gives Pascali the courage to bring up the matter of blackmailing Bowles?
(a) Bowles laughs at Pascali's concern about breaking the law.
(b) Bowles calls Pascali a wimp.
(c) Bowles begins to berate the people of the Ottoman Empire, calling them savage and without honor.
(d) Bowles mentions how much he enjoys sex with Lydia.

3. Of what does Bowles accuse Pascali?
(a) Of being insane.
(b) Of being timid.
(c) Of being an informant.
(d) Of being without a conscience.

4. How does Pascali close his report?
(a) By signing his name.
(b) He says he quits.
(c) By saying May the Sultan Live Forever.
(d) He mentions that the entire report, from Bowles arrival to his death, could be as false as his earlier tale of the fly on his arm.

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

6. Who is Pasha deceiving?
(a) The empire.
(b) Bowles.
(c) Pascali.
(d) The English.

7. What does Pascali think the men he is leading are going to do?
(a) Kill Bowles and capture Smith.
(b) Capture Smith and Bowles.
(c) He is not sure.
(d) Kill Bowles and his men.

8. To what does Pascali admit?
(a) Being jealous of Bowles with Lydia.
(b) Stealing the gold watch.
(c) Searching Bowles' hotel room.
(d) Stealing the marble statue.

9. Who waits impatiently for all persons to arrive for the meeting?
(a) Bowles and Pascali.
(b) Bowles and Izzet.
(c) Pascali and Izzet.
(d) Bowles.

10. What does Pascali take from Bowles' room?
(a) A gold ring from the excavation site.
(b) A plate of olives.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bowles' journal.

11. What does Pascali figure out about how Bowles will remove the statue from the island?
(a) He's still trying to figure it out.
(b) By way of Smith's boat.
(c) By ballon in the middle of the night.
(d) Through the mountains over to the other side of the island.

12. What does Pascali learn about the phrase "terra rossa"?
(a) That there is actually no such material.
(b) That it is bauxite, a non-plastic, clay-like material, generally red in color.
(c) That it is only used in very primative cultures for making wood-fired dishes.
(d) That it is slightly radioactive.

13. How would this trait that Bowles sees in Pascali help Bowles?
(a) Bowles can offer Pascali a return to his native land.
(b) It is a corruption to a level necessary to deal with the likes of Izzet and Pasha.
(c) Bowles can appeal to the high ideals to gain Pascali's help.
(d) Bowles can use the romantic side of Pascali to lure him with Lydia.

14. What does Pascali find when he returns home?
(a) A note saying the money will be mailed to him.
(b) A letter addressed to Lydia and Pascali giving them Bowles's blessings.
(c) The one hundred fifty liras promised him, with a note telling him to leave the island.
(d) Fifty liras with a not promising more soon.

15. What does Pascali say of Bowles's speech patterns?
(a) That they sound more German than English.
(b) That they are a curious blend of sophistication and peasantry.
(c) That they belie his English origins.
(d) That they are seemingly innocent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Bowles want to leave the situation for a few days?

2. Who does Pascali follow?

3. How does Bowles envision the bronze statue he finds?

4. Who meets Pascali on his way home from Dr. Hogan's?

5. To what does Pascali agree?

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