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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 7, what items are the Maitlands stockpiling?
(a) Rugs.
(b) Papyrus prints.
(c) Reliquaries.
(d) Lamps.

2. Which of the following is not a named object that Tap and James debate the meaning of in Chapter 1?
(a) A Mackintosh.
(b) A Chesterfield.
(c) A Wellington.
(d) An Ingersoll.

3. Why is James concerned about Tap in Chapter 1?
(a) He wants Tap to return to the United States.
(b) He is concerned about Tap's refusal to learn Greek.
(c) He is concerned Tap is too attached to Owen.
(d) He does not know where he's attending school in September.

4. About what does James needle Kathryn at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) The importance of the dig.
(b) His feelings for her.
(c) Her relationship with Owen.
(d) Tap's schooling.

5. Why did Owen Brademas promote Kathryn so quickly?
(a) His workers were quitting.
(b) She helped him get a book published.
(c) She was sleeping with him.
(d) She thinks she is a prodigy.

6. What unusual thing do the Keller's do late at night in Chapter 3?
(a) Leave for Portugal on a whim.
(b) Make love on the beach.
(c) Swim in their clothes.
(d) Drive their car off the road.

7. About whom does James dream about in Chapter 6?
(a) Jesus.
(b) Kathryn.
(c) Vosdanik.
(d) Del.

8. In Chapter 5, what does Volterra talk to Owen about?
(a) His dig.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) His relationship with Kathryn.
(d) The language cult.

9. What do information do the two men in Owen's Chapter 2 story ask of him?
(a) Who is father was.
(b) What his business in Matala is.
(c) Where he was born.
(d) How many languages he speaks.

10. In Istanbul, James marvels that his friends reduce every culture to what?
(a) A hotel room.
(b) An anecdote.
(c) A cultural stereotype.
(d) A food staple.

11. How many people did Owen Brademas's dig start with?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

12. At dinner in Chapter 3, the expatriates decide that traveling is like collecting what?
(a) New homes.
(b) Old sand.
(c) Dead memories.
(d) Faded postcards.

13. What admission does Ann make to James in Chapter 4?
(a) Charles has been fired.
(b) She is having an affair.
(c) She has been embezzling money.
(d) She speaks no Greek.

14. What European city does James Axton have an apartment in?
(a) Paris.
(b) Athens.
(c) West Berlin.
(d) Madrid.

15. Near the end of Chapter 3, David and James discuss unrest in what region?
(a) The Middle East.
(b) French Indochina.
(c) The Soviet Bloc of Europe.
(d) Sub-Saharan Africa.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, Owen claims to be good at finding what when studying faith?

2. In Chapter 1, what does James say is the only thing he can remember in Greek?

3. In Chapter 6, why does Volterra think Del should be more awed by their surroundings?

4. What country is Volterra likely in, in Chapter 5?

5. With whom does Eliades talk throughout most of dinner in Chapter 3?

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