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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What tourist attraction does the group visit in Egypt?
(a) Necropolis of Saqqara.
(b) Temple of Luxor.
(c) The Egyptian pyramids.
(d) The Lighthouse of Alexandria.

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

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

5. What does Twain hail as the only way to travel?
(a) By donkey.
(b) A country a year.
(c) All at once.
(d) In small increments.

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

7. Where does the ship anchor in Chapter 57?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Cape of Good Hope.
(c) Jerusalem.
(d) Nantucket.

8. What does the guard in Chapter 49 have in his possession?
(a) A huge record book.
(b) Multiple types of land mines.
(c) Bags of swords and guns.
(d) Several assistants.

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

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

12. What story does Twain relate in Chapter 54?
(a) The story of the Blind Man and the Dog.
(b) The story of the Broken Stone.
(c) The story of the Wandering Jew.
(d) The story of the Holy See.

13. From whom do the travelers need protection on their way to Galilee?
(a) The Taborians.
(b) The Hessians.
(c) The Black Horsemen.
(d) The Bedouins.

14. Where does the group set up camp in Nazareth?
(a) None of the answers is correct.
(b) Near the Virgin Mary's Fountain.
(c) Near the American consulate.
(d) Near Jesus' birthplace.

15. What temples do the travelers visit in Baalbek?
(a) The Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Mars.
(b) The Temple of the Moon and the Temple of Mars.
(c) The Temple of the Moon and the Temple of Jupiter.
(d) The Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is guarding the boys in Chapter 49?

2. How do the travelers enter the Mosque of Omar?

3. Why is the tour guide in Chapter 35 called famous?

4. Who do the travelers invite onto the ship to teach them the proper way to act when presented to the Emperor?

5. What does Twain contract in Chapter 45?

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