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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. 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) Nothing.
(d) 800 liras.

2. What does Izzet say he knows about Bowles?
(a) That Bowles used to work for Scotland Yard.
(b) That Bowles has a wife arriving on the next boat.
(c) That Bowles and Smith are associated.
(d) That Bowles does have an advance degree in archeology.

3. 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 they are both likely to lose their heads if things are not resolved very soon.
(d) That someone is stalking Bowles.

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

5. Why do Pascali and Bowles meet with Izzet at the hotel?
(a) For public witnesses.
(b) Because they have a great buffet.
(c) So they cannot be secretly killed at Pasha's house.
(d) To discuss the seven hundred liras payment.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pascali figure out about how Bowles will remove the statue from the island?

2. Of what does Pascali write to the Sultan in this section?

3. What goes wrong with the meeting?

4. What does Hogan's wife give Pascali?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Pascali take from Bowles' room and why does this show a different side of Pascali?

4. What do you think is a possible instance of foreshadowing in this section?

5. Summarize the interaction between Pascali and Bowles and one probable hidden meaning.

6. What do you think is Pascali's interpretation of the man he follows and sees laughing with Bowles?

7. Summarize the interaction between Pascali and Bowles just before Pascali leaves the evacuation site and explain if you think Pascali intends to follow through on the agreement with Bowles.

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

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

10. How does Pascali miss an important clue about Bowles because of Pascali's own desires?

(see the answer keys)

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