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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. Who did Mary send a letter to in Chapter 24?

2. What animal did John and Ester see after disembarking from the boat in Chapter 20?

3. In Chapter 23, how long does it take to get an email response from the Jewish Archives of Amsterdam?

4. In Chapter 24, what did Mary throw out a window toward Bescos?

5. In Chapter 28, who made arrangements to print Mendes's Seven Areguments Against a False Messiah.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When and how does Aaron learn the date and manner of Ester's death?

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

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

5. What was Ester and Alvaro's wedding like?

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

7. At the end of Chapter 19, what do Helen and Aaron begin to think about Ester and Thomas Farrow?

8. What did Manuel request and do in Chapter 20 in a letter he wrote to Ester?

9. How did Mary catch the plague and die?

10. In Chapter 21, what did Aaron discover about Ester?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Helen and Ester have regrets about how they have lived their lives. What regrets do the women have? How do those regrets affect their lives and how they live?

Essay Topic 2

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?

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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