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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Pascali follow?
(a) Lydia and Izzet.
(b) Lydia and Bowles.
(c) No one.
(d) Smith and Lydia.

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

3. To what does he admit concerning the Turks and Greeks?
(a) Trying to set one against the other.
(b) Disliking both groups.
(c) Consorting with both equally.
(d) Trying to maintain peace between the two.

4. What does Politis say to Pascali when they pass on the street?
(a) That Bowles plans to kill Pascali after the negotiations.
(b) That Pascali had better watch his back.
(c) That Pascali did not say hello to him as he passed on his way to dinner.
(d) That Bowles is an English spy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Greeks do at the Sanctuary of Artemis?

2. What does Pascali realize he loves as he loves the island?

3. What does Pascali believe about harmony.

4. What does Bowles claim to Pasha that he has found?

5. Of what is Pascali now convinced?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bowles ostensibly say is his interest in the Sanctuary of Artemis?

2. How is Pascali's visit to Lydia a metaphor for the Ottoman Empire?

3. How does Pascali represent the theme of violence symbolically?

4. How do Bowles and Pascali view Lydia's painting differently and what surprises Pascali about the way Lydia and Bowles discuss art?

5. What historical event is introduced in this section and how is it linked symbolically to the major plot?

6. How is the concept of lighting discussed and interpreted by Pascali

7. If you were receiving Pascali's spy reports, how would you treat them?

8. What are some images that seem to suggest the violence that is simmering just below the surface on this island?

9. Name a metaphor or symbol that occurs in this section and what it represents.

10. What is a theme that predominates this section?

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