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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Anne's parents die?
(a) When Anne is fifteen.
(b) When she is a child.
(c) Just recently on a boat that sinks.
(d) They are not dead.

2. Who eventually becomes Caleb and Joel's tutor?
(a) Samuel.
(b) Chauncy.
(c) No one.
(d) Makepeace.

3. How does Bethia describe the proprietor of the school?
(a) Long winded.
(b) Kind.
(c) Mean spirited.
(d) Short sighted.

4. Who dies unexpectedly?
(a) The governor.
(b) The youngest, unmarried son of the governor.
(c) The wife of the governor.
(d) The married son of the governor.

5. What position is it likely Joel will hold at graduation?
(a) None.
(b) Valedictorian.
(c) Distinguished graduate.
(d) Salutatorian.

6. To whom is one of the students related?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) John Smith.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) Anne Bradstreet.

7. With whom does Bethia talk about Samuel and Noah?
(a) No one.
(b) Anne.
(c) Caleb.
(d) Makepeace.

8. Whom does Anne marry?
(a) Caleb's brother.
(b) Caleb.
(c) No one.
(d) Joel.

9. About what is Makepeace jealous?
(a) Bethia and Caleb's success at learning.
(b) Other men his age have gone off to college.
(c) Their mother loved Bethia more than Makepeace.
(d) Their father loved Bethia more than Makepeace.

10. Who is nervous and frightened?
(a) Anne.
(b) The puppy.
(c) The new cook.
(d) Bethia.

11. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?
(a) He believes woman are inferior to men.
(b) He loves another woman.
(c) He believes woman are equal to men.
(d) He wants a wife with whom he could talk intellectually.

12. Why do Samuel and Bethia return to Cambridge?
(a) To help Sammuel's dying father.
(b) For the commencement.
(c) To take Anne to be with Caleb.
(d) To take Caleb news from the island.

13. What does Bethia want to do?
(a) Marry Caleb.
(b) Both return to the island and have an intellectual life of books.
(c) Go back to the island and not marry.
(d) Marry Noah.

14. About what is Caleb troubled?
(a) Anne still being at the school.
(b) The lack of justice in Anne's case.
(c) Bethia still being at the school.
(d) That natives are treated as inferiors.

15. What does Makepeace threaten to tell their grandfather?
(a) Of Bethia's behavior.
(b) Caleb lusts for Bethia.
(c) Behia is more native than Caleb is.
(d) Caleb has cursed their family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia believe she feels for Caleb?

2. What happens in the early part of Bethia's one year at Harvard College?

3. What tradition does Caleb refuse to obey?

4. What is one thing Bethia has to endure?

5. About what do Bethia and Makepeace argue?

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