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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. In Chapter 5 after translating six documents, what type of document does he begin working on next?
2. In Chapter 13, who does Aaron compare Ester to?
3. In Chapter 2, who requested that Rabbi Mendes come to England?
4. How many postgraduates accompany Wilton to the rare manuscripts room in Chapter 15?
5. In what languages did Dror sing to Helen in Chapter 11 when they went to Jaffa?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 9, why does Helen simply walk away from the assessor from Sotheby's?
2. What is the one text that Aaron is able to find that Mendes published, and what is the subject?
3. In Chapter 1, why does Darcy recommend Aaron Levy to help Helen?
4. Why did Catherine and Mary da Costa Mendes come to speak with Ester in Chapter 10?
5. In Chapter 14, what did Mendes say about Spinoza?
6. What does Aaron look like when Helen sees him in the rare manuscripts room in Chapter 15?
7. What rules did the Mahamad set forth in a pamphlet in Chapter 14?
8. In Chapter 6, what did Ester see when she was onboard a ship?
9. What did Mendes and ben Israel's father suffer together?
10. What did the letter propose that Ester burned in Chapter 12?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel and why? Could it be classified as two or more different genres?
Essay Topic 2
The rabbi and other characters make confessions in the novel. What is a confession? Who makes confessions in the novel? How do those confessions relieve agony that characters felt?
Essay Topic 3
Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. If you could assign a color to represent the mood of the novel, what color would it be? Why? Would you choose different colors to describe the mood in Parts 1 to 5?
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