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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 is the date of the first document that Patricia brings Aaron in Chapter 17?

2. How much money did Ester have in Chapter 18 when she had been paid by Mary?

3. In Chapter 17, how big of a gash does Aaron put in a document?

4. In Chapter 18 when did Ester write her second letter to Spinoza?

5. What did Rivka cut after the rabbi died to signify mourning in Chapter 22?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What story did Bescos tell of the Jews of York?

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

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

5. In Chapter 20, what did Ester enjoy seeing at Barn Elms?

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

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

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

9. What was Ester's last request in Chapter 28?

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

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

Bescos brings conflict when he sets a mob on the da Costa Mendes house. What are some major conflicts in the novel? Are these internal or external? Are they mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature or man vs. self?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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