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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 2, Scene 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Jews who will not comply with the governor's order?
(a) They and their families will be executed.
(b) They and their families' money and possessions will be taken.
(c) They and their families will be sold as slaves.
(d) They and their families will be deported.

2. How does Barabas's accomplice gain access to where the money is hidden?
(a) By simply walking in unattended.
(b) By crawling through a broken window.
(c) By knocking out the watchman.
(d) By lying to the people there.

3. Why was Marlowe jailed?
(a) He plotted the governor's murder.
(b) He wrote against the Catholic church.
(c) He allegedly wrote lies about someone.
(d) He got drunk and started a fight.

4. What kind of person is amoral?
(a) One who tells everyone else what to do.
(b) One who acts without regard to moral precepts and rules.
(c) One who lives according to his own rules.
(d) One who asks advice for important decisions.

5. Who refuses the Spanish visitor's request when he comes to Malta?
(a) Ferneze.
(b) Barabas.
(c) Lodowick.
(d) Mathias.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abigail remind Barabas of when she retrieves him?

2. What two systems were partnered in Marlowe's time?

3. Where did several of Marlowe's plays take place?

4. What did other playwrights get from Marlowe?

5. What is required before the imports on a ship can be offloaded?

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