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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the tour guide in Chapter 35 called famous?
(a) He is listed in all the popular travel books.
(b) He has been a tour guide since he was three.
(c) None of the answers is correct.
(d) He saved an important tourist from execution.

2. What do the travelers do in the Arab mosque that not even the Arabs do?
(a) Speak.
(b) Step on the prayer mats with their shoes.
(c) Remove their clothes.
(d) Remove their shoes.

3. What do the travelers do once they reach the River Jordan?
(a) Drink the water.
(b) Go swimming.
(c) Say a prayer.
(d) Take a nap.

4. To where are the colonists who have boarded the ship in Chapter 57 going to be taken?
(a) Maine.
(b) Africa.
(c) Jakarta.
(d) Japan.

5. Twain says that everything is now measured in __________ instead of __________.
(a) Days; hours.
(b) Time; miles.
(c) Inches; miles.
(d) Dollars; dimes.

6. According to Twain, what is wrong with the coffee on the ship?
(a) It is too weak.
(b) It is awful.
(c) It tastes like dirt.
(d) It is an unlikely color.

7. With what are the streets of Constantinople crowded?
(a) Vendors.
(b) Crippled and deformed people.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Beggars.

8. How is Constantinople described when viewed from the ship?
(a) The city of lights.
(b) Shining and blessed.
(c) A beautiful sight.
(d) Dark and foreboding.

9. What did the preachers on board the ship tell young Jack that turtles will do in Chapter 47?
(a) Sing.
(b) All of the answers are correct.
(c) Run.
(d) Talk.

10. What are the spinning dancers of a religious healing nature called?
(a) Dancing dervishes.
(b) Whirling dervishes.
(c) Oracles.
(d) Spinners.

11. What is the group looking for in Magdala?
(a) A modern-day prophet.
(b) The "true" cross.
(c) The house of Mary Magdalene.
(d) The Holy Sepluchre.

12. What do the travelers take from Ephesus as souvenirs?
(a) Travel brochures.
(b) Pieces of ruins.
(c) Icons.
(d) Religious medals.

13. What is the name of the ruin of the tall tower seen after the group leaves El Yuba Dam?
(a) Tower of Babel.
(b) Mt. Pegus.
(c) Polycarp's tomb.
(d) Baniyas.

14. Who do the travelers invite onto the ship to teach them the proper way to act when presented to the Emperor?
(a) Odessa's oldest citizen.
(b) The Odessa consul.
(c) The town apothecary.
(d) The emperor's adviser.

15. What did the travelers rename Temin el Foka for ease of pronunciation?
(a) Telefork.
(b) Jacksonville.
(c) Fork 'em.
(d) Travelworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. The travelers find themselves in the mountains of what area in Chapter 41?

2. Who asks Twain to write a summary of the excursion?

3. What is the average age of a passenger on the excursion?

4. What is the first disappointing tourist attraction the group visits in Turkey?

5. Who is guarding the boys in Chapter 49?

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