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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of person is amoral?
(a) One who asks advice for important decisions.
(b) One who tells everyone else what to do.
(c) One who acts without regard to moral precepts and rules.
(d) One who lives according to his own rules.

2. Why does Barabas want Ferneze's son dead?
(a) Ferneze had seized his assets.
(b) The son wanted to break the betrothal.
(c) The son had seduced Abigail.
(d) Ferenze disapproved of the betrothal.

3. How did Marlowe die?
(a) In barroom brawl.
(b) Of old age.
(c) In a duel.
(d) In a sick bed.

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

5. Why was Marlowe jailed?
(a) He allegedly wrote lies about someone.
(b) He got drunk and started a fight.
(c) He plotted the governor's murder.
(d) He wrote against the Catholic church.

6. What happens to the bodies of the duelists when the parents go?
(a) They are buried.
(b) They are carried away.
(c) They are left behind.
(d) They are thrown in the sea.

7. What happens to the duelers?
(a) Both are slightly wounded.
(b) One dueler live and the other dies.
(c) Both walk away unhurt.
(d) Both are mortally wounded.

8. Why does Barabas think the Jews were ordered to meet at the senate house?
(a) For the government to confiscate their houses.
(b) For the government to imprison them.
(c) For the government to enlist their aid against the Turks.
(d) For the government to demand their money.

9. What exactly is in the bag of the prostitute's friend'?
(a) Jewels.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Silver.
(d) Gold.

10. How does Barabas describe Abigail?
(a) An expert, stealing with ease.
(b) A spy, deceiving his enemies.
(c) A star, shining in the east.
(d) A fly, unseen on the wall.

11. Where does Abigail send Ithamore after he's explained what happened because of the letters?
(a) To find her father.
(b) To find Ferneze.
(c) To find the friars.
(d) To find Katherine.

12. Why aren't the prisoners captured by the Spanish allowed to be sold?
(a) For fear that taxes would not be paid.
(b) For fear their price would be too high.
(c) For fear the Spanish would retaliate.
(d) For fear the Turks would retaliate.

13. Why does Barabas prefer to be paid in gold rather than valuable goods?
(a) Goods can lose their value.
(b) Gold takes up less space.
(c) Gold is as good as money in any nation.
(d) Goods can be burned or lost.

14. What does Abigail risk by following Barabas's instructions to retrieve the gold?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Death.
(d) Imprisonment.

15. When Abigail decides to remove herself permanently from her father's household, what does she leave for her father?
(a) A letter.
(b) Some money.
(c) A handkerchief.
(d) Some flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the prices of the slaves displayed?

2. Why do the characters in Act 3, Scene 2 challenge each other to a duel?

3. Who leaves the duel rejoicing?

4. What does Abigail think her father lacks?

5. Where is the man approaching the prostitute and her friend coming from?

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