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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 15, what is the name of Helen's doctor?
(a) Dr. Paulsen.
(b) Dr. Hammond.
(c) Dr. Bagwell.
(d) Dr. Ross.

2. What is the date of the letter in Chapter 13 that is a cross-written document?
(a) April 3, 1665.
(b) February 9, 1665.
(c) March 23, 1665.
(d) February 27, 1675.

3. When Mary and Ester were riding in the coach, how many girls from the synagogue joined them?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

4. When did Helen buy the picture of the Masada that hangs in her office?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1949.

5. In Chapter 20, what did Ester go to get?
(a) Food.
(b) Linens.
(c) Books.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 16, whose name did Ester sign to a letter?

2. When did the HaLevy family arrive in London?

3. Where does Chapter 6 take place?

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

5. How many times was it rumored that Diego da Costa Mendes had gone courting since his wife's death in Chapter 16?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the one text that Aaron is able to find that Mendes published, and what is the subject?

3. What advice did Mendes offer in Chapter 4?

4. What did the letter propose that Ester burned in Chapter 12?

5. In Chapter 16 who wanted to marry Ester and why?

6. What does Aaron look like when Helen sees him in the rare manuscripts room in Chapter 15?

7. In Chapter 15, how did Helen learn of Dror's death?

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

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

10. In Chapter 1, why does Darcy recommend Aaron Levy to help Helen?

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