1. Complete the verse: « After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the _____ in the presence of the king. »

2. Match each reference to its verse.

3. Complete the verse: « In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of _____ for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another… »

4. Where is this verse from? « and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in… »

5. Put these verses back in order.