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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?
(a) An argument with her friend about the Wampanoag's rights.
(b) The music and energy of the Wampanoag dancing.
(c) An argument with her brother about his friend he wants her to marry.
(d) A fight with her father.

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

3. Who is Iacoomis?
(a) A Wampanoag who is interested in how the whites farm.
(b) A Wampanoag native who tried to lead an uprising against the whites.
(c) A Wampanoag who teaches the Mayfield family the Wampanoag language.
(d) A Wampanoag who knows how to read and write English.

4. When does Bethia expect punishment for her sins?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Never.
(c) Not in her present world.
(d) Only if her father learns of her sin.

5. What love does Bethia describe?
(a) Love for the preacher's boy.
(b) Love of the island.
(c) Love for her brother.
(d) Love for her dog.

6. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?
(a) Severe anxiety.
(b) Nausea and then unconsciousness.
(c) A feeling of euphoria.
(d) Nothing.

7. With whom does Caleb agree to study?
(a) Mayfield.
(b) No one.
(c) Makepeace and Joel.
(d) Bethia.

8. What does Bethia suddenly discover?
(a) Makepeace is ill.
(b) Solace is missing.
(c) Caleb is standing behind her.
(d) There is a rattler in the kitchen.

9. What does Tequamuck fail to do?
(a) Drink from the gourd a second time.
(b) Ask his chief's permission before making Mayfield leave the tribal grounds.
(c) Successfully treat the epidemic.
(d) Thank Mayfield.

10. When does Bethia's twin brother die?
(a) At age 10.
(b) At birth.
(c) At age 12.
(d) At age 15.

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

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

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

14. Who berates Bathia for her absence when she returns to the beach?
(a) Her sister.
(b) No one.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her father.

15. What do the visitors ask?
(a) To see Bethia's father.
(b) For help in curing a visiting elder.
(c) Some food.
(d) To take Bethia back home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Bethia sent after the sonquem responds to Mayfield's initial treatment?

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

3. What does Tequamuck do with a gourd?

4. What is the name of Bethia's new sister?

5. What does Caleb say often change with his people?

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