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

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

3. Who does Pascali meet in the hotel lobby?
(a) Lydia.
(b) Pasha.
(c) The Frenchman Chaudan.
(d) Izzet.

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

5. What is the likely reason Bowles has suddenly brought up the presence of the soldiers?
(a) To be doubly obnoxious.
(b) As a stalling tactic.
(c) As more leverage.
(d) Because he wants to discomfit Pasha.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Dr. Hogan say is the man to whom Bowles was talking?

3. What did Pascali fear until recently?

4. Why does Pascali think Bowles despises Pascali?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does it suggest to you when Bowles insists on the removal of the soldiers at the evacuation site?

2. What is some information that Pascali has learned in this section and do you think any of the information will determine a course of action for Pascali?

3. In the end, what do you think Pascali is left with of any value?

4. Why do you think Pascali becomes depressed by Dr. Hogan's talk of the Sultan?

5. How does Pascali now see Bowles and how might that insight be both inaccurate and dangerous?

6. What is ironic as Pascali reflects on whether to send this latest report to the Sultan?

7. By this section, can we be certain as to whether Pascali is a reliable narrator?

8. How does the symbolism in this section express the duality of the natures of both Bowles and Pascali?

9. How do you think Pascali's perception of Bowles relationship to Pascali enables Pascali to rationalize his blackmail of Bowles?

10. In what position does Bowles place Pascali in not meeting with Izzet at the hotel and how is this ironic?

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