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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. What is the date in Chapter 1?
(a) October 9, 2000.
(b) September 11, 2000.
(c) August 22, 2000.
(d) November 2, 2000.

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

3. Why does Helen say that Rabbi Mendes had a scribe?
(a) He had arthritis.
(b) His hands were damaged during the Inquisition.
(c) He had palsy.
(d) He was blind.

4. When was Rabbi Mendes cautioning against false messiahs?
(a) 1656.
(b) 1654.
(c) 1657.
(d) 1655.

5. What was the date in Chapter 12?
(a) November 1663.
(b) February 1664.
(c) December 1663.
(d) January 1664.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, how many candles did Ester use when reading Augustine and Descartes in the night?

2. In Chapter 11, how many years did Muriel live under enemy guns?

3. In Chapter 3, when does Helen say that Easton house was built?

4. When Mary and Ester were riding in the coach, how many girls from the synagogue joined them?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Isaac die?

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

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

7. Why did Catherine choose Ester to be Mary's companion?

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

9. What rules did the Mahamad set forth in a pamphlet in Chapter 14?

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

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