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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. Which of the following does Tom NOT bring back from the Orient?
(a) Porcelain jars.
(b) Bottles of Sake.
(c) Ivory newel post button.
(d) Yards of silk.

2. What are the boys playing as the book opens?
(a) Tag.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Leapfrog.
(d) Red Rover.

3. What is the name of the family's religion?
(a) Congregationalist.
(b) Jewish.
(c) Catholic.
(d) Methodist.

4. What does Tom agree to do in order to marry Lydia?
(a) Not go to sea again.
(b) Get a better job.
(c) Build a new house.
(d) Become a Quaker.

5. What does Dencey hate about herself?
(a) Her big feet.
(b) Her red hair.
(c) Her swarthy complexion.
(d) Her accent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dencey also likes that the new house is next door to whose house?

2. What is Dencey's formal name?

3. Nantucket is off the coast of which state?

4. What season is arriving at the beginning of the book?

5. For what is Injun Jill known?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dencey think about as she sits in her room?

2. How do Tom and Dencey spend their time together while he is home from the sea?

3. What is Dencey's plan to get Sammie to forgive her and what risk does she take if she carries it out?

4. Where does the Coffyn family move? Why do they like it, especially Dencey?

5. How does Dencey react to Sammie's response to her offers of forgiveness?

6. What disheartening news does Lydia receive in a letter from Tom?

7. How do Lydia and Tom greet each other even though Lydia had been almost despondent without her husband?

8. Why would Lydia be forbidden to marry Tom?

9. How soon after his last letter does Tom return home?

10. How does Dencey's faith compare to her cousin Hopestill's faith?

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