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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1 - Part 2, Anno 1660, Actatis Suae 15, Great Harbor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?
(a) With fear.
(b) With digust.
(c) As if the book is blasphemous.
(d) Reverently.

2. What does Caleb's "real" name mean?
(a) Wise one.
(b) Enlightened one.
(c) Strange one.
(d) Hateful one.

3. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach?
(a) The white community gathers to slaughter it.
(b) The Wampanoag are contacted by the white community to claim it.
(c) Everyone works together to get it back into the ocean.
(d) The whites prepare to slaughter it, but it unbeaches itself and swims off.

4. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?
(a) It is shared among all the occupants of the island.
(b) There has never been a beached whale before.
(c) Two men from the two groups have a friendly wrestling match to win rights to the whale.
(d) It belongs to the Wampanoag.

5. What does Bethia say she feels about the Wampanoag?
(a) She thinks they are too savage to ever be Christians.
(b) She believes they are God's children, though inferior.
(c) She has come to identify with them.
(d) She has not met one in person.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bethia see what happens with the whale?

2. What is Bethia doing when she comes upon a group of Wampanoag dancing?

3. What does Caleb call Bethia?

4. Who is Caleb?

5. What does Bethia at first consider outlandish about what Caleb tells her?

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