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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has been the purpose of Volterra's recent excursions in Chapter 6?
(a) Visiting Islamic holy sites.
(b) Scouting locations for a film.
(c) Investigating the murders.
(d) Visiting a couple old mistresses.

2. What city is James in at the beginning of Chapter 3?
(a) Vienna.
(b) Rome.
(c) Zagreb.
(d) Athens.

3. In Chapter 1, what word does Kathryn bet James that Tap knows?
(a) Demagogue.
(b) Gale.
(c) Ballast.
(d) Dervish.

4. Which of the following characters admits to having never been to a famous monument in Chapter 1?
(a) Charles Maitland.
(b) Kathryn Axton.
(c) Ann Maitland.
(d) James Axton.

5. In Chapter 7, what does James accuse Owen of doing?
(a) Purposely sabotaging the dig.
(b) Hating him.
(c) Misleading Volterra.
(d) Sleeping with Kathryn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what has Volterra recently done that has made headlines?

2. In Chapter 4, James marvels that he can barely read the Greek writing on what?

3. In what part of his apartment is James at the end of Chapter 3?

4. Into what country is James arriving at the beginning of Book 2?

5. In Chapter 3, what trip does James discuss with Rowser?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plan does Volterra have for his life after film?

2. What indication exists in Chapter 1 that relations are strained between James and Kathryn?

3. According to Owen in Chapter 5, Why does the world hate America?

4. What does James Axton do in Europe?

5. In Chapter 4, what plan does Kathryn have for after her dig ends?

6. Describe the awkward lunch at the beginning of Chapter 7.

7. Describe Owen Brademas.

8. What do Owen and James talk about at the end of Chapter 2?

9. How do Kathryn and James discuss their relationship in Chapter 2?

10. How is Rowser's lifestyle strange given his position?

(see the answer keys)

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