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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. With whom does Pascali ask to speak?
(a) Bowles.
(b) Lydia.
(c) Izzet.
(d) Pasha.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Pascali meets Izzet the next time, what does Izzet want?

2. What does Bowles' notebook indicate?

3. Why do Pascali and Bowles meet with Izzet at the hotel?

4. Why does Bowles refuse the offer?

5. What does Izzet say he knows about Bowles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain how Pascali and Bowles agree again to be allies and whether you think either man is sincere.

3. Why do you think Pascali continues to let Bowles dictate the terms of their interaction?

4. How is the slaughter of the sheep symbolic of a "slaughter" that takes place within Pascali?

5. Is there anything in this section that gives a different view of Bowles and perhaps makes him a more likable character?

6. What evidence is there that Pascali may be in danger?

7. 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?

8. How is the previous foreshadowing come to completion in this final section?

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

10. Why do you think Pascali blends reality and illusion to create realism in imaginary settings?

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