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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the prostitute depressed?
(a) She's dying.
(b) She has no money.
(c) She hates her customers.
(d) She's being put out of the city.

2. Who does Barabas's daughter love?
(a) Mathias.
(b) Lodowick.
(c) Marco.
(d) Ferneze.

3. Where is Barabas's gold hidden?
(a) The local monastery.
(b) The senate house.
(c) His former home.
(d) A waterfront inn.

4. Which duelist is Katherine's son?
(a) Pilia-Borza.
(b) Mathias.
(c) Ithamore.
(d) Lodowick.

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 enlist in the military to fight the Turks and house soldiers in their homes.
(c) All Jews must surrender half their money and convert to Catholicism.
(d) All Jews are being sold as slaves to the Turks and their possessions auctioned.

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

7. What does Barabas do with what Ithamore brings out?
(a) He sprinkles dirt in it.
(b) He mixes crushed glass in it.
(c) He puts poisons in it.
(d) He adds urine to it.

8. Whom does Barabas warn his slave against trusting?
(a) Muslims.
(b) Christians.
(c) Atheists.
(d) Jews.

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

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

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

12. What do the duelists' parents find?
(a) Two pistols.
(b) Their bodies.
(c) Bloody clothes.
(d) Injured sons.

13. 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 will be deported.
(c) They and their families will be sold as slaves.
(d) They and their families' money and possessions will be taken.

14. What does Barabas discover about Abigail?
(a) That she ran away to get married.
(b) That she joined the nunnery.
(c) That she doesn't love him anymore.
(d) That she wants to steal his money.

15. What does Barabas call his daughter when talking to Lodowick at the slave market?
(a) An emerald.
(b) A pearl.
(c) A diamond.
(d) A ruby.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mathias's mother not like Jews?

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

3. When Abigail decides to remove herself permanently from her father's household, what does she leave for her father?

4. What does the prostitute think about the man who is approaching?

5. Where are the prices of the slaves displayed?

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