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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. Where does Aaron get lunch in Chapter 9?
(a) Bridgette fixes lunch.
(b) He brings lunch.
(c) He has lunch delivered.
(d) Shop across the way.

2. In Chapter 14, what does Ester do with the pamphlet from the Mahamad?
(a) Flattens it in a book.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Reads it to Mendes.
(d) Puts it with the refuse.

3. Where did Ester say goodbye to Alvaro in Chapter 16?
(a) Her home.
(b) His home.
(c) The docks.
(d) The park.

4. How many postgraduates accompany Wilton to the rare manuscripts room in Chapter 15?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

5. How old was Spinoza when Ester met him?
(a) 13 or 14.
(b) 12 or 13.
(c) 16.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long ago in Chapter 15, had Helen learned of Dror's death?

2. When is Helen allowed to read the Easton manuscripts in the rare manuscripts room?

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

4. From where did Daniel Lusitano send Mendes a letter in Chapter 16?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. At the end of Chapter 13, why does Helen say that she left Dror?

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

9. 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?

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

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