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

2. When was the last time Mendes saw Spinoza?
(a) Just after his ban.
(b) 2 years after the ban.
(c) Just before his ban.
(d) A year before the ban.

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

4. How long did the HaLevy family own the Easton house according to Helen in Chapter 5?
(a) 45.
(b) 24.
(c) 37.
(d) 17.

5. In Chapter 3, how long does it take Helen to drive from her office to the Easton's home?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 40 minutes.
(d) 30 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who painted Helen's Masada painting?

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

3. Whose offer of marriage did Ester refuse in Chapter 13?

4. Where did Ester say goodbye to Alvaro in Chapter 16?

5. In Chapter 14, how many children did Catherine tell Ester that she birthed?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What advice did Mendes offer in Chapter 4?

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

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

5. What did Dror tell Helen and the other volunteers in Chapter 11 about their time on the base?

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

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

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

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

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

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