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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3, Scene 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Barabas's accomplice gain access to where the money is hidden?
(a) By simply walking in unattended.
(b) By knocking out the watchman.
(c) By lying to the people there.
(d) By crawling through a broken window.

2. What does the governor confide to the vice-admiral?
(a) That Malta resents the Spanish.
(b) That theTurks are threatening Malta.
(c) That the Spanish are unwelcome in Malta.
(d) That Malta has a large army.

3. How does Barabas get his hidden money?
(a) Abigail carries the gold our the front door.
(b) Abigail smuggles the gold out the back door.
(c) Abigail drops sacks of gold from a window.
(d) Abigail hides the gold in a basket of dirty clothes being taken to the laundry.

4. Who does Ithamore bring back to the house to see Abigail?
(a) Friar Jacobs.
(b) Friar Jacomo.
(c) Friar Bernardine.
(d) Friar Belmora.

5. What order does the governor issue concerning the tribute?
(a) All Jews have one week to pack personal items only and leave town.
(b) All Jews must surrender half their money and convert to Catholicism.
(c) All Jews must enlist in the military to fight the Turks and house soldiers in their homes.
(d) All Jews are being sold as slaves to the Turks and their possessions auctioned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the prostitute's male friend have when they first converse in the play?

2. Who represents the Turks at the meeting with the Maltese governor?

3. Why aren't the prisoners captured by the Spanish allowed to be sold?

4. What does Abigail tell the friar she's been thinking about?

5. What does Abigail ask the friar?

(see the answer key)

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