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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 does Helen keep in her office for a snack in Chapter 25?

2. In Chapter 21, what time did librarian Patricia say that conservationist Patricia would be down?

3. In Chapter 25, when does Helen have an appointment with Jonathan Martin?

4. In Chapter 22, what did Rivka get a delivery boy to help with?

5. At the end of Chapter 25, where did Helen imagine herself to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Helen and Aaron get Ester's last papers in Chapter 27?

2. In Chapter 18, what advice did Ester try to give Mary?

3. Where did Ester and Rivka go after fleeing London in Chapter 26, and what reception did they receive there?

4. How did Mary catch the plague and die?

5. In Chapter 26 how did Ester and Rivka escape from the da Costa Mendes house?

6. What did Ester learn about Rivka in Chapter 24?

7. Why did Ester and Rivka move into the da Costa Mendes house?

8. What did Alvaro discuss in a poem he wrote as Ester was dying?

9. Where does Helen go in Chapter 25 to search records, and what does she find?

10. What questions does Helen say could not be asked in the seventeenth century?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aaron accuses Helen of attributing Ester with the traits of feminism. Why does Helen attribute the traits of feminism to Ester? Was Ester a feminist?

Essay Topic 2

Masada was the site of a battle between Jews and Romans. What happened at Masada? What does Masada represent in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Point of view determines how readers view characters and events. What is the point of view of the novel and how does it affect what readers know about characters and events?

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