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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there tension between Makepeace and his father?
(a) Makepeace wants to start his family.
(b) About having Caleb in the house when Bethia is so young.
(c) Makepeace wants to marry someone his father does not want him to marry.
(d) Makepeace wants to go back to England to college.

2. How does Bethia consider her life at this time?
(a) Intolerable.
(b) Drudgery.
(c) Happy.
(d) Content.

3. What does Bethia describe at the opening of this section?
(a) Why she desires to live as an independent woman.
(b) Why she thinks God is still punishing her.
(c) Her baby sister's habits.
(d) Her current situation.

4. Upon what does Bethia's narration focus in this section?
(a) Her life in England.
(b) Her life in Cambridge.
(c) Her life in Nantucket.
(d) Her life with Caleb.

5. What has Caleb been doing the next morning when Bethia encounters him?
(a) Taking lessons from the tribal shamen.
(b) Grooming his horse.
(c) Giving an early morning greeting to the sun god.
(d) Swimming.

6. Why is Bethia at Master Corlett's school?
(a) She is attending advanced studies there.
(b) She is serving as an accountant there.
(c) She is helping her brother move there.
(d) She is a housekeeper there.

7. What does Caleb say often change with his people?
(a) Names.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Camping grounds.
(d) Traditions.

8. Why does Bethia not know what will happen to her?
(a) Because her father is negotiating with two families for her hand in marriage.
(b) Because of Caleb's arrival.
(c) Because she is now responsible for her baby sister.
(d) Because she is not sure if anyone knows she sipped from the gourd.

9. What does Bethia wonder about Caleb?
(a) If her father would ever let her marry him.
(b) If he would ever become a Christian.
(c) If his ordeal was God's will.
(d) Why he even speaks to her.

10. Why is Bethia uneasy when she is serving the noon meal?
(a) She notices Caleb staring at Solace.
(b) She believes Caleb is staring at her.
(c) She is uneasily drawn to Caleb.
(d) Makepeace is rude to Caleb.

11. What does Bethia's father say about Bethia learning too much?
(a) Bethia has learned too much already and is not desirable as a bride.
(b) It's not good for a pretty girl.
(c) She can never learn too much.
(d) She needs to be careful in what she studies.

12. Who is Noah Merry?
(a) A young, white man who kills a Wampanoag in a dispute.
(b) Another White who thinks the Wampanoag are being mistreated.
(c) The brother of Bethia's best friend.
(d) A merchant's son and possible husband for Bethia.

13. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?
(a) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.
(b) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.
(c) To live in one of the vacated homes in the White community.
(d) To live with the Mayfield family.

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

15. What does the perfect day Bethia is experiencing fail to do?
(a) Give her a moment to thank God for the day.
(b) Foretell the tragedy that is to come.
(c) Lift her spirits.
(d) Give her time to herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Indian community to which Tequamuck belongs?

2. What love does Bethia describe?

3. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?

4. Why does Bethia's father choose some particular passages from the Bible to read when Caleb is introduced?

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

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