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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the bare hill in Shechem?
(a) The Mount of Poverty.
(b) The Mount of Curses.
(c) The Hill of Poverty.
(d) The Hill of Curses.

2. What do the travelers take on the train to Ephesus?
(a) A bar of soap.
(b) A bag of food.
(c) Their suitcases.
(d) Donkeys.

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

4. Who has hired the guard to protect the Americans on their trip to Galilee?
(a) The Emperor of Russia.
(b) The Pope.
(c) The Sheikh of Tiberius.
(d) The monks of the local convent.

5. Who asks Twain to write a summary of the excursion?
(a) The Boston Globe.
(b) The New York Herald.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) The Boston Herald.

6. 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.

7. Who is a famous ancient person who had a part in the history of Ephesus?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Cicero.
(c) Homer.
(d) Augustus.

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

9. What is the best thing to see in Smyrna?
(a) One of the Seven Apocalyptic Churches.
(b) Polycarp's tomb.
(c) Mount Pegus.
(d) Ephesus.

10. Twain was quite taken with a girl in what city?
(a) Magdala.
(b) El Amin.
(c) Ephesus.
(d) Yalta.

11. What is the first Asian city of biblical interest?
(a) Jakarta.
(b) Amman.
(c) Smyrna.
(d) Canaan.

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

13. What does Twain do one year after the excursion?
(a) Writes another article about the trip.
(b) Returns for an encore farewell.
(c) Contacts the other passengers.
(d) Makes the trip again.

14. What do the travelers find on a hill high over the sea in Smyrna?
(a) A huge field of poppies.
(b) Rows and layers of oyster shells.
(c) Broken idols.
(d) A destroyed citadel.

15. Where did Twain see the handkerchief of St. Veronica?
(a) Italy.
(b) Paris.
(c) All answers are true.
(d) Spain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What appears to be the emperor's weakness?

3. What temples do the travelers visit in Baalbek?

4. What story does Twain relate in Chapter 54?

5. What does Twain call Palestine?

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