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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. What is Takemmy?
(a) The Wampanoag settlement where Bethia and her father go.
(b) The name of the woods where Bethia likes to roam.
(c) The name of the beach where the Mayfield's live.
(d) The name of the stream that runs the mill.

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

3. Where does Bethia accompany her father?
(a) To the trading post.
(b) On one of his preaching trips to the Wampanoag.
(c) To the mainland.
(d) To visit an ill cousin.

4. What does Bethia say she will continue to do?
(a) Plead for the rights of the native population.
(b) Tell the story of her past.
(c) Avoid marriage.
(d) Watch over her younger sister.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bethia?

2. Who interferes in the sonquem's request?

3. What does Grandfather Mayfield ask Pastor Mayfield to do?

4. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?

5. What does Bethia and the rest of the family do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bethia do that she attributes to Satan's influence and what are the consequences?

2. How does Bethia describe Caleb?

3. What does Bethia say is the reason for the tension between her father and Makepeace, and why is it strange that they are upset with each other?

4. What does Bethia say about the influence of Cambridge on Caleb?

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

6. What frustrates Bethia about her life and choices available to her?

7. What happens to Bethia's sister Solace?

8. What does Bethia say about her two brothers and what her father says about females?

9. Describe the effect of Bethia's father's preaching on the Wampanoag.

10. What does Noah show Bethia the next morning and what is her reaction?

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