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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What does Pascali see as he's walking home through the market?
(a) Three strangers buying fruit.
(b) Bowles talking with three strangers.
(c) Lydia and Bowles talking with a stranger.
(d) Lydia talking with three strangers.

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

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

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

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

7. Why is Pascali depressed and anguished?
(a) At the thought of losing his 150 liras.
(b) At the thought of his own death.
(c) At the thought of confronting Bowles.
(d) At the thought of confronting Lydia.

8. What view of the world do Bowles and Pascali have in common?
(a) One of the idea of parallels and symbolism.
(b) That everyone has a price.
(c) That the world does not care who it deceives as long as they have money.
(d) To take care of number one first.

9. To what does Pascali agree?
(a) To getting the money from Lydia.
(b) To killing Bowles.
(c) To finding Bowles.
(d) To removing the soldiers.

10. What does Pascali think Lydia has been doing?
(a) Two timing Bowles.
(b) Acting as the go between for Bowles and Smith.
(c) Writing the Sultan of Bowles's activities.
(d) Reporting Bowles's activities to Pasha.

11. What does Izzet tell Pascali?
(a) That Pasha is not a patient man.
(b) That Pascali will not live through this if it does not work out.
(c) That Bowles must be eliminated.
(d) That Bowles is a scoundrel.

12. What does Hogan's wife give Pascali?
(a) A bowl of shelled peas.
(b) A smile and a hug.
(c) A jar of tomato paste.
(d) A plate of falafiel.

13. Upon whose head is the responsibility for this situation?
(a) Bowles.
(b) Pasha.
(c) Izzet.
(d) Pascali.

14. How does Pascali respond to Bowles' accusation.
(a) Pascali proudly declares himself to be "the best kind."
(b) He gives Bowles an evil grin.
(c) He gets tearful.
(d) He lowers his head.

15. When Pascali meets Izzet the next time, what does Izzet want?
(a) Pascali does not see Izzet anymore in the story.
(b) To have Pascali bring Bowles to a place where Bowles can be roughed up.
(c) To know why Bowles is delaying.
(d) To know if Smith and Bowles are running drugs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why are Pasha and Izzet caught in a must-pay situation?

3. What does Bowles insist that he is doing?

4. What gives Pascali the courage to bring up the matter of blackmailing Bowles?

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

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