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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. When did Godwin say that Thomas Farrow had a brief career as a philosopher?

2. Where does Aaron go after leaving the record room in Chapter 21?

3. How many children did Ester have according to the records that Anne from Ricmond Local Studies can find?

4. What does Marisa tell Aaron at the end of Chapter 23?

5. How many trips did it take Ester in Chapter 22 to carry her things to the da Costa Mendes house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Patricia Starling-Haight and Patricia Smith help Helen in Chapter 25?

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

3. How do Helen and Aaron get Ester's last papers in Chapter 27?

4. In Chapter 19, what does Aaron tell Helen about writing a reference for him to Wliton?

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

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

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

8. What did Alvaro discuss in a poem he wrote as Ester was dying?

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

10. In Chapter 23, what does Marisa tell Aaron?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aaron is confused by a Shakespearean sonnet. How do the characters view romantic love? What is communicated about love through relationships that characters have?

Essay Topic 2

Ester is an unusual woman for her time. What was the role of a woman in the seventeenth century? How does Ester reject that role? How is she regarded for rejecting that role? Why is she an unusual woman for her time?

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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