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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Helen say that Rabbi Mendes had a scribe?

2. By what age had Aaron read enough to realize that his father's safe sermons did not resemble the courage required in the world?

3. How long had it been since Isaac had been at the rabbi's house in Chapter 8?

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

5. In Chapter 20, what did Ester go to get?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Isaac die?

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 12, why did the rabbi tell Rivka that Ester read in the night?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ester marries Alvaro. Why do they marry? How would you describe their relationship? How is their relationship beneficial for both of them?

Essay Topic 2

Ester meets John Tilman when she is acting as Mary’s chaperone. What type of relationship do Ester and John have? Why does their relationship end?

Essay Topic 3

Aaron is a selfish young man who is not careful in his relationships with women. How would you describe Aaron and who he is at the beginning of the novel? What changes Aaron? How does he change?

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