Q. Why does Barabas kill Bernardine and Jacomo?
a) He detests the priests for their hypocrisy.
b) He wants to demonstrate his cunning to Ithamore.
c) Bernardine offended Barabas by converting Abigail, and Jacomo knows about Barabas’s crimes.
d) Jacomo offended Barabas by converting Abigail, and Bernardine knows about Barabas’s crimes.
Q. How does Ithamore attempt to bribe Barabas?
a) He sends him death threats.
b) He threatens to burn his house down.
c) He threatens to confess all of Barabas’s crimes.
d) He pretends to have evidence proving that Barabas is helping the Turks.
Q. How does Barabas disguise himself in order to poison Bellamira, Pilia-Borza, and Ithamore?
a) He dresses as a Spanish fiddle-player.
b) He pretends to be a Turkish bashaw.
c) He steals the uniform of one of Ferneze’s officers.
d) He pretends to be a French lute-player.
Q. What does Barabas demand when Ferneze sends him to jail?
a) He seeks retribution for the wrongs the governor has done him.
b) He asks that Bellamira and Pilia-Borza also be sent to jail.
c) He insists on being treated with fairness under the law.
d) Barabas demands to be put into a cell far away from Ithamore.
Q. In what way does Barabas feign death?
a) He takes a sleeping potion.
b) He lies very still and holds his breath.
c) He bribes his guards to pretend that he is dead.
d) He knocks himself unconscious on his cell door.
Q. How does the Turkish army defeat Malta?
a) Barabas tells Calymath about a passage cut through the rock that leads to the town.
b) The Turks capture Ferneze and force the Maltese to surrender.
c) The Turkish fleet starves the town by blockading its food supplies.
d) Barabas poisons all of the town’s wells.
Q. Why does Barabas decide to make a deal with Ferneze?
a) He knows that his life is in danger when the Turks leave Malta.
b) Ferneze persuades him that it is good policy.
c) Calymath threatens to kill Barabas if he is an unjust governor.
d) Barabas decides that he should atone for the wrongs he has done Ferneze.
Q. What adjectives would best describe Barabas’s attitude as he dies?
a) Contrite and apologetic
b) Enraged and unrepentant
c) Timid and apprehensive
d) Quiet and reflective
Q. To whom or what does Ferneze credit Malta’s deliverance?
a) To his own sharp statecraft
b) To Calymath’s naivety
c) To the amulet he wears around his wrist
d) To Barabas’s treachery and Divine Providence
Q. In Alchemist, What does Santiago notice in the sacristy of the abandoned church that he takes shelter in on the way to the merchant?
a) A burning bush
b) Several lost sheep
c) A sycamore tree
d) A huge wooden cross