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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 12, how many candles did Ester use when reading Augustine and Descartes in the night?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

2. How many times was it rumored that Diego da Costa Mendes had gone courting since his wife's death in Chapter 16?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

3. Where does Chapter 6 take place?
(a) Richmond.
(b) English Channel.
(c) Amsterdam.
(d) France.

4. In Chapter 8, how did Issac die?
(a) Knife attack.
(b) Beaten.
(c) Drowned.
(d) Shot.

5. When did the HaLevy family arrive in London?
(a) About 1615.
(b) 1631.
(c) 1622.
(d) Around 1620.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the seventeenth century, how far would Richmond have been from London?

2. In Chapter 7, what was the name of the person who wrote to Mendes and complained about his using a girl for a scribe?

3. When did Helen buy the picture of the Masada that hangs in her office?

4. In Chapter 2, who requested that Rabbi Mendes come to England?

5. Why does Helen say that Rabbi Mendes had a scribe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Isaac die?

2. Why did Rabbi Mendes write Rabbi ben Israel in Chapter 2?

3. What advice did Mendes offer in Chapter 4?

4. In Chapter 9, why does Helen simply walk away from the assessor from Sotheby's?

5. According to Mary in Chapter 16, under what circumstances might Ester marry?

6. What does the Easton house look like in Chapter 3?

7. In Chapter 13, why does Aaron think it would have been better for the London Jewish community to have invited Mendes to be their rabbi?

8. In Chapter 11, how did Helen come to buy the Masada painting?

9. In Chapter 6, what did Ester see when she was onboard a ship?

10. What does Helen say about her conversation with Jonathan Martin about the Easton documents?

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