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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abigail admit to the friar?
(a) She is confused and seeking the truth.
(b) She wasn't ready to convert the first time she went to the nunnery.
(c) She believes that the Jews killed Christ.
(d) She has always believed the Catholicism was the best religion.

2. What do the duelists' parent have in common?
(a) They don't understand why there was a duel.
(b) They hate each other.
(c) They hate Barabas.
(d) They don't understand why both are betrothed to Abigail.

3. Why did the Jews flee to Malta?
(a) The opportunity for a wealthier lifestyle.
(b) The abundance of available free land.
(c) The persecution of the Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The presence of a Christian monastery.

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

5. Who approaches the prostitute and her friend while they are talking?
(a) Lodowick.
(b) Mathias.
(c) Barabas.
(d) Ithamore.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the duelers?

2. What does the second merchant tell Barabas?

3. What does Barabas discover about Abigail?

4. Who is the governor of Malta?

5. Whom does Barabas warn his slave against trusting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the letter delivered to Ithamore?

2. What does Abigail say to Friar Bernardine?

3. Why doesn't Abigail tell the friar the complete reason she wants to convert?

4. Why is Bellamira broke?

5. What does Ithamore's reaction to the death of Mathias and Lodowick say about him?

6. What does it say about Barabas that Pilia-Borza found his gold?

7. When Barabas first appears in the play, how does he feel about politics?

8. Why does Barabas object to Lodowick as a suitor for Abigail?

9. What might Mathias and Lodowick have done to prevent the duel?

10. What three religions are represented and who or what represents them in the first scene of Act 1?

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