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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. In Chapter 17, who does Henry discover were Lazarus's two sisters?
(a) Mary and Martha.
(b) Mary and Magdalene.
(c) Mary and Melissa.
(d) Mary and Ruth.

2. In Chapter 19, what is Henry's plan to get himself into the jail?
(a) He is going to hit someone in the street.
(b) He is going to steal from a street vendor and get caught.
(c) He is going to engage in sodomy.
(d) He is going to pretend to be publicly drunk.

3. In Chapter 19, what is the first question Dante asks Henry when he gets out of jail?
(a) Whether his father asked about him.
(b) Whether his father knew the island in Venice is sinking.
(c) How his father looked.
(d) Whether his father told Henry the cipher or not.

4. In Chapter 15, what does Felicity suggest might make her and Henry's father go easier on Henry?
(a) If Henry would go to law school.
(b) If Henry would apologize to the Duke of Bourbon.
(c) If Henry would study medicine.
(d) If Henry would stop being attracted to boys.

5. In Chapter 19, what does Henry steal?
(a) Money.
(b) Pork.
(c) Pastries.
(d) Potatoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 15, what does Henry find to drink at the Robles's house before going to bed?

2. In Chapter 19, what does the thief-taker call Henry?

3. In Chapter 18, what does Henry make for Percy back at the Robles's house?

4. In Chapter 21, what is one thing Percy, Felicity and Henry drink on the ship?

5. In Chapter 21, what happens when Henry and Percy are about to kiss?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 17, what does Felicity tell both Percy and Henry that makes them both embarrassed and squeamish?

2. In Chapter 17, why do Percy, Henry and Felicity all go to a local bookstore in Barcelona?

3. In Chapter 19, why does Mateu Robles tell Henry he does not think any man should possess the panacea?

4. In Chapter 24, how does Henry convince the French naval men to leave Scipio's ship alone?

5. In Chapter 19, what does Mateu Robles tell Henry about the form his panacea takes?

6. In Chapter 19, what does Henry say to the thief-taker that prompts the thief-taker to strike him?

7. In Chapter 19, why does Henry fake a theft?

8. In Chapter 13, what does Helena Robles tell Henry, Percy and Felicity that devastates Henry?

9. In Chapter 19, why does the thief-taker's striking of Henry's face cause Henry such shame and fright?

10. In Chapter 14, what language does Helena Robles speak to Henry when he first rings her doorbell and why is he put off when she says she does not speak English?

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