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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1 - Part 2, Anno 1660, Actatis Suae 15, Great Harbor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?
(a) She would love some linen to make a dress.
(b) She does not speak the language of the Wampanoag.
(c) She believes her cousin will get well.
(d) She wants to marry her brother's friend.

2. Why does Bethia take off some of her clothes?
(a) To help strip the whale carcass.
(b) To dance with the Wampanoag.
(c) To go in the ocean and wash off the whale blood.
(d) To launder her outer things.

3. What kind of transgression into evil does Bethia say she commits?
(a) Eve-like.
(b) Talking to a male outside the family.
(c) Talking in church.
(d) Taking the Lord's name in vain.

4. When does Bethia encounter some of Caleb's gods?
(a) When she looks deeply into Caleb's eyes.
(b) When she is sitting on the cliff overlooking the ocean.
(c) When she is singing by herself in the forest.
(d) When she is dancing with the Wampanoag.

5. What does Bethia believe about her mother's death?
(a) Her mother wanted to die.
(b) Her mother did not fear death.
(c) Bethia thinks she is to blame for the death.
(d) Her mother will not go to heaven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?

3. What does Bethia at first consider outlandish about what Caleb tells her?

4. What does Bethia say she feels about the Wampanoag?

5. What is Bethia's father doing with the Wampanoag?

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