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

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

3. In Chapter 14, what month was it?

4. In Chapter 2, from where did Rabbi Mendes come from?

5. In Chapter 15, how long has Helen lived in her flat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Isaac die?

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

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

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

6. How does Helen learn that Mendes's scribe was a woman?

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

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

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

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

Mary da Costa Mendes is left alone in London after her mother’s death. Why was Mary’s mother concerned about the relationship between Mary and her father before she died? Where is her father after Mary’s mother's death? Why does he leave her alone in London? How would you describe the relationship between Mary and her father?

Essay Topic 2

Ester believes that she betrayed the rabbi. Why does Ester believe that she betrayed the rabbi? How does she chastise herself for the betrayal? How does the betrayal affect how she lives?

Essay Topic 3

Aaron and Helen do not get along at first. How would you describe their relationship at first? How does their relationship change? What changes their relationship?

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