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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?
(a) Atonement for sins against her mother.
(b) She likes to stay busy.
(c) The housekeeper died.
(d) The housekeeper is ill.

3. Why does Bethia say she is so tired in Chapter 11?
(a) From lying awake for several nights writing her confession.
(b) From running back and forth between the fields and the kitchen.
(c) From doing her mother's work as well as her own.
(d) She does not know why she is so tired.

4. What comment by Noah catches Bethia's attention?
(a) About the Wampanoag ceremony for manhood.
(b) About his sister and her brother marrying.
(c) About marriage to Bethia.
(d) About a Wampanoag girl Noah likes.

5. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?
(a) Detached.
(b) Sad.
(c) Calmer.
(d) Estactic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia believe about her mother's death?

2. Why does Bethia feel responsible for her mother's death?

3. What does Bethia discover about the well?

4. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?

5. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the first attempt at the conversion of the sonquem go and what changes that?

2. How does Mayfield act in the aftermath of Solace's death?

3. What does Caleb think of Bethia's name and how does he express his feelings about it?

4. What is Bethia's father's dealings with the Wampanoag, and how does Bethia learn their language?

5. How does Caleb explain his early morning greeting to the sun god?

6. Who establishes the colony where Bethia lives and whom does Bethia feel has been wronged?

7. What does Bethia's father say about the sonquem when Mayfield returns to the Merry home?

8. What does Bethia say about Caleb's progress with the English language?

9. What does Bethia say about the situations in her family's life at this time?

10. How does Bethia describe her life in Cambridge?

(see the answer keys)

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