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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What legend does Twain relate in Chapter 40?
(a) The Legend of the Seven Sleepers.
(b) The Legend of the White Eagle.
(c) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
(d) The Legend of the Broken Sparrow.

3. Who does Twain claim founded the city later replaced by Babylon?
(a) Noah.
(b) Nimrod.
(c) Nehemiah.
(d) Nicodemus.

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

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

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

7. What appears to be the emperor's weakness?
(a) Wine.
(b) Food.
(c) The duchess.
(d) The empress.

8. What does Twain contract in Chapter 45?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Meningitis.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Malaria.

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

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

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

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

13. What does Turkey allow that Twain finds immoral?
(a) Bigamy.
(b) Selling young girls at auction.
(c) Smoking from an apparatus.
(d) Drinking heavily.

14. In Chapter 41, where were the travelers originally planning to travel first?
(a) Beirut.
(b) Mt. Carmel.
(c) Damascus.
(d) Baalbek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the tour guide in Chapter 35?

2. Whose tomb does Twain visit on his journey to Baalbek?

3. What city is said to be the boyhood home of Jesus?

4. What is the name of the bare hill in Shechem?

5. How much did the boat driver want to take the group on a tour of the body of water in which they are swimming?

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