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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bowles ask of Pascali?
(a) To be his ally.
(b) To help Bowles get the statue out of the country.
(c) To be quiet about Bowles's deceptions.
(d) To gain Pasha's confidence again.

2. Upon what is Bowles' pretended offer of friendship to Pascali solely based?
(a) Upon Bowles's need for translation services.
(b) Upon Bowles's belief that he could manipulate Pascali to help him seduce Lydia.
(c) Upon Bowles's need for local legitimization.
(d) Upon Bowles's erroneous perception that Pascali held power on the island.

3. What does Pascali find Bowles doing at the excavation site?
(a) Unearthing a bronze statue.
(b) Smashing many artifacts.
(c) Sleeping.
(d) Burying the gold bracelet.

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

5. How much does Izzet then offer?
(a) 700 liras, which is what Bowles initially asks for.
(b) 600 lira, 50 of which will pay Bowles for his time already spent.
(c) 800 liras.
(d) Nothing.

6. What does Bowles demand?
(a) For Pascali to be arrested for extortion.
(b) The removal of the soldiers from the evacuation site.
(c) For Pasha to meet with him instead of Izzet.
(d) More money.

7. Who does Pascali see talking to the person Pascali is following?
(a) Bowles.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Smith.
(d) Izzet.

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

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

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

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

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

13. What shocking news does Bowles give Pascali?
(a) That the Sultan is on his way to being deposed.
(b) That Lydia is actually a German government agent.
(c) That Germany has occupied Constantinople.
(d) That the Sultan is dead.

14. How does Bowles envision the bronze statue he finds?
(a) On a platform in the harbor.
(b) Erected at the Sanctuary of Artimes.
(c) He has no plans for the statue.
(d) Placed into a museum with a plaque bearing his name.

15. What kind of image does Pascali think Bowles projects?
(a) A dedicated amatuer scientist.
(b) One of decency, morality, and ethics.
(c) A bit of a fop.
(d) A sophisticated, yet jaded, businessman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pascali insist to Bowles about the church service?

2. What is the most significant thing about terra rossa?

3. What does Pascali think Lydia has been doing?

4. What does Bowles' notebook indicate?

5. What does Pascali think that Bowles sees within Pascali?

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