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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. How many days will Helen and Aaron have to examine the documents in the Easton's home?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. From where is the letter written in Chapter 2?
(a) Leeds.
(b) London.
(c) Oxford.
(d) Bath.

3. Whose offer of marriage did Ester refuse in Chapter 13?
(a) Benjamin Easton.
(b) Richard Allende.
(c) Alvaro HaLevy.
(d) Manuel HaLevy.

4. What class does Aaron remember taking with Marisa?
(a) Economics.
(b) Philosophy of Literature.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Classical Hebrew.

5. How long had it been since Ester had held a quill in Chapter 8?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 14 months.
(d) 18 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the names of the HaLevy boys that Mendes was tutoring in Chapter 10?

2. What is the date in Chapter 15?

3. In Chapter 7, what color scarf is Bridgette wearing?

4. In Chapter 5, who were the HaLevy family?

5. What is the date in the Prologue?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Mendes and ben Israel's father suffer together?

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

4. 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?

5. In Chapter 8, what did Issac tell Ester when she asked him to return to the Rabbi's household?

6. How does Helen learn about the papers from the seventeenth century?

7. Why did Catherine and Mary da Costa Mendes come to speak with Ester in Chapter 10?

8. In Chapter 11, how does Aaron act in the rare manuscripts room?

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

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

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