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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barabas plan for the nuns?

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

3. How does Barabas describe Abigail?

4. Why does the Spanish armada come to Malta?

5. Who does the governor ask for physical assistance against the Turks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Ferneze suggest to Katherine that they do with the bodies of their sons?

3. What how does Barabas react when the friars confront him about the deaths of Mathias and Lodowick?

4. Every nun at the nunnery died. How are some ways one might have lived?

5. Why do you think Ithamore says he hopes Barabas will pay him for delivering the message?

6. Why does Ferneze tell Calymath of Barabas's plan to kill Calymath?

7. Why do you think Barabas uses a poison that is slow acting when he poisons the porridge?

8. What is Ferneze's motivation for accepting help from the Spanish?

9. What three religions are represented and who or what represents them in the first scene of Act 1?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Support three reasons why Abigail agrees to lie and enter the convent to retrieve her father's gold.

Essay Topic 2

After helping the Turks conquer Malta, Barabas doesn't really want the governorship they have given him. Write an essay supporting three different reasons why Barabas feels this way.

Essay Topic 3

Consider the point of view of the Spanish in Act 1, Scene 2 and answer these questions.

1. Why should it be Spain's responsibility to protect Malta?

2. How are the self-interests of Spain satisfied by protecting Malta?

3. How would Spain generally benefit from defeating the Turks?

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