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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who supervises the off-loading of the first ship?
(a) One of Barabas's merchants.
(b) Two government officials.
(c) Barabas.
(d) No one.

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

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

4. How does Barabas react when he learns that Abigail has left his house for good?
(a) He doesn't care.
(b) He's wants to remove her from the nunnery.
(c) He's furious.
(d) He wants to burn the nunnery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Barabas's political affiliation?

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

3. Who does Barabas's daughter love?

4. Where is Barabas's gold hidden?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Barabas object to Mathias as a suitor for Abigail?

2. Do you think Barabas will really pay taxes on the cargo from his ships?

3. If you were Ferneze, would you have told Del Bosca about Barabas's plan to kill Calymath?

4. What do Pilia-Borza and Bellamira decide after Ithamore tells them about Barabas's murders?

5. How does Barabas escape prison?

6. Why do you thing Barabas would help the Turks conquer the island?

7. How does Barabas react to Pilia-Borza, Bellamira, and Ithamore's blackmail?

8. What does Ferneze do when Pilia-Borza and Bellamira reveal Barabas's murders and Ithamore's involvement?

9. After the Turks have conquered Malta, why would Ferneze think they could be defeated this time?

10. What does Abigail think of her father when she learns he is responsible for the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick?

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