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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After inspecting the island, what does Calymath receive?
(a) An invitation from Barabas for a feast.
(b) An invitation from a prostitute.
(c) An invitation to the nunnery.
(d) An invitation to the monastery.

2. When referring to the results of the delivery to the nunnery, what does the friar suggest?
(a) Get a doctor.
(b) Pray for Abigail.
(c) Get water from the well to put out the fire.
(d) Report the theft to the authorities.

3. What is a bashaw?
(a) The leader of the Turkish ship.
(b) A Turkish messenger.
(c) A high ranking Turkish military man.
(d) A Turkish slave.

4. What does the Abbess do as a result of the delivery to the nunnery?
(a) Send for Friar Bernardine to hear her last confession.
(b) Send a messenger to the authorities.
(c) Gather the nuns to get water.
(d) Gather the nuns to pray for Abigail.

5. What does Friar Bernardine promise Abigail?
(a) That he will contact Barabas about his conversion.
(b) That the church will gladly accept her money.
(c) That he will tell no one what Abigail revealed to him.
(d) That she will be forgiven.

6. What does Ferneze do with Calymath after Barabas dies?
(a) He holds Calymath and demands ransom from Calymath's father.
(b) He lets Calymath and his men sail away.
(c) He imprisons Calymath.
(d) He kills Calymath.

7. What two sins does Barabas admit to the friars?
(a) That he is a usurer and a fornicator.
(b) That he is covetous and a hypocrite.
(c) That he is a murderer and a thief.
(d) That he is a blasphemer and a liar.

8. How does Barabas kill Pilia-Borza, Bellamira, and Ithamore?
(a) With a club.
(b) With a knife.
(c) With poisoned porridge.
(d) With a poisoned flower.

9. What answer is given to the bashaw's demand?
(a) That the Spanish would rather die fighting the Turks than surrender.
(b) The Maltese would rather burn the island and flee than pay the gold.
(c) That Ferneze would never be given to the Turks to be executed.
(d) The Maltese would rather burn and destroy the island than give it intact to the bashaw.

10. Where has Barabas hidden his gold?
(a) Secured in a secret room.
(b) Sunk in a chest on the seashore.
(c) Hidden under some floorboards.
(d) Buried in the ground.

11. How much money was pledged to Barabas?
(a) 10,000 pounds.
(b) 100,000 pounds.
(c) 30,000 pounds.
(d) 50,000 pounds.

12. What happens to Barabas at the feast?
(a) He is killed by Ferneze.
(b) He is killed by Calymath.
(c) He is disappointed because the trap doesn't work.
(d) He falls into the trap and dies.

13. What does Ithamore warn Pilia-Borza and Bellamira about?
(a) That Barabas likes to poison his enemies.
(b) That Barabas is suspious of Ithamore.
(c) That Barabas is suspious of Pilia-Borza and Bellamira.
(d) That the authorities are suspious of Pilia-Borza and Bellamira.

14. What does Ferneze do after talking with Pilia-Borza and Bellamira just before they die?
(a) Send for the friar.
(b) Send for a shovel and cart.
(c) Send for Barabas and Ithamore.
(d) Send for soldiers.

15. How does Barabas get free?
(a) He trades clothes and leaves looking like a friar.
(b) He bribes his keeper.
(c) He runs away.
(d) He fakes his own death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Pilia-Borza and Bellamira hint at doing?

2. After the delivery, what is revealed inside the nunnery?

3. Why does Barabas give Pilia-Borza gold?

4. Why do the friars agree to Barabas's conversion?

5. What signals the death of the nuns?

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