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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 5, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a counting house?
(a) A business where clerks manage other people's accounts.
(b) A private house built to accomodate visiting royalty.
(c) A place where gold, silver, and valuable goods are stored.
(d) A boys' school that teaches accounting.

2. What does Ithamore tell Pilia-Borza and Bellamira?
(a) About all of the murders Barabas committed.
(b) That he can't go through with the blackmail.
(c) That Barabas has money hidden in several places.
(d) About all the murders Ithamore committed.

3. Who approaches the prostitute and her friend while they are talking?
(a) Mathias.
(b) Lodowick.
(c) Ithamore.
(d) Barabas.

4. To whom does Barabas's daughter become betrothed?
(a) Lodowick.
(b) Ferneze.
(c) Mathias.
(d) Marco.

5. What does Pilia-Borza bring Barabas at the beginning of Act 4, Scene 3?
(a) A second letter demanding more money.
(b) A warning to flee.
(c) A false message to get him out of the house.
(d) A poisoned flower.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Barabas describe Abigail?

2. What circumstance would want to make Barabas die?

3. What happens to the duelers?

4. Which duelist is Katherine's son?

5. Who has the Spanish armada been fighting?

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