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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. Why does Helen say that Rabbi Mendes had a scribe?
2. Where does Aaron get lunch in Chapter 9?
3. In Chapter 6, how long has it been since Ester's brother has said a word to her?
4. In Chapter 5, what was the only text that Aaron found that Rabbi Mendes published?
5. In Chapter 16, where did Ester and Mary go?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did Rabbi Mendes write Rabbi ben Israel in Chapter 2?
2. What does Aaron look like when Helen sees him in the rare manuscripts room in Chapter 15?
3. What is the one text that Aaron is able to find that Mendes published, and what is the subject?
4. How did Isaac die?
5. According to Mary in Chapter 16, under what circumstances might Ester marry?
6. In Chapter 8, what did Issac tell Ester when she asked him to return to the Rabbi's household?
7. At the end of Chapter 13, why does Helen say that she left Dror?
8. Why did Catherine choose Ester to be Mary's companion?
9. What advice did Mendes offer in Chapter 4?
10. What does Helen say about her conversation with Jonathan Martin about the Easton documents?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mary da Costa Mendes is left alone in London after her mother’s death. Why was Mary’s mother concerned about the relationship between Mary and her father before she died? Where is her father after Mary’s mother's death? Why does he leave her alone in London? How would you describe the relationship between Mary and her father?
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
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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