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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Barabas tell his slave about himself?
(a) That he's killed people.
(b) That he hates Christians.
(c) That he's stolen from people.
(d) That he has a second wife.

2. Who tells her son he shouldn't speak to Jews?
(a) Katherine.
(b) Abigail.
(c) Eunice.
(d) Elizabeth.

3. Why is the governor happy?
(a) The Spanish have defeated the Turkish forces.
(b) He anticipates taxes from the presence of the Spanish.
(c) The Spanish have weakened the Turkish forces.
(d) He anticipates being given money.

4. What does Barabas decide once Abigail has left his house?
(a) To convince her to return.
(b) To kill her.
(c) To prove to her Catholicism is false.
(d) To let her live her own life.

5. What does the prostitute assume is in the bag?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Jewels.
(d) Medicine.

6. What religion is the slave Barabas buys?
(a) Jewish.
(b) Muslim.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Atheist.

7. What does Barabas's character represent?
(a) Hard work and perseverence.
(b) Greed and stereotyped Catholicism.
(c) Egotism and selfishness.
(d) Greed and stereotyped Judaism.

8. What happens to Jews who will not comply with the governor's order?
(a) They and their families will be executed.
(b) They and their families' money and possessions will be taken.
(c) They and their families will be sold as slaves.
(d) They and their families will be deported.

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

10. How does Machevill suggest a person gains power?
(a) Through greed and immoral behavior.
(b) Through honesty and perseverence.
(c) Through stealing and blackmail.
(d) Through deception and murder.

11. What does Abigail tell the friar she's been thinking about?
(a) About which religion God approves of.
(b) What will become of her father.
(c) About where she'll go when she dies.
(d) What the nuns taught her.

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

13. Who does the governor ask for physical assistance against the Turks?
(a) Calymath.
(b) Lodowick.
(c) Ferneze.
(d) Barabas.

14. Why does the Spanish armada come to Malta?
(a) To sell Turkish prisoners.
(b) To resupply their vessels.
(c) To take a time of relaxation.
(d) To trade with their cargo.

15. Who represents the Turks at the meeting with the Maltese governor?
(a) Calymath.
(b) Lodowick.
(c) Barabas.
(d) Ferneze.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the bag and its contents come from?

2. Why may some exact words of Marlowe's plays seem familiar?

3. How does the governor betray Malta?

4. Who prepares to fight a duel in Act 3, Scene 2?

5. What does Ithamore say happened because of the letters?

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