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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barabas think of Catholicism?

2. What does the prostitute assume is in the bag?

3. To whom does Barabas's daughter become betrothed?

4. What does the male friend of the prostitute want to do when he sees a man approaching them?

5. Who does Barabas's daughter love?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Barabas die?

2. Do you believe Bellamira was interested in Ithamore as a customer or as a man?

3. Why is Ferneze happy to learn that the Spanish navy has fought with and weakened the Turkish ships?

4. What is Martin del Bosco's motivation for offering help to Malta?

5. What do Pilia-Borza and Bellamira decide after Ithamore tells them about Barabas's murders?

6. How does Barabas escape prison?

7. Every nun at the nunnery died. How are some ways one might have lived?

8. What does Ferneze do when Pilia-Borza and Bellamira reveal Barabas's murders and Ithamore's involvement?

9. Why do you thing Barabas would help the Turks conquer the island?

10. After becoming the new governor, what deal does Barabas make with Ferneze?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Support three reasons why Abigail agrees to lie and enter the convent to retrieve her father's gold.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Ferneze go to the Jews and not another source or sources to get the tribute money demanded by the Turks?

Essay Topic 3

As a slave, Ithamore, has been used throughout the play. Document each event of how Ithamore's life has been manipulated. Choose two of those events and explain the motivations and outcomes of those events. How did the events affect Ithamore and those other characters involved?

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