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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 say she feels about the Wampanoag?
(a) She has come to identify with them.
(b) She believes they are God's children, though inferior.
(c) She thinks they are too savage to ever be Christians.
(d) She has not met one in person.

2. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach?
(a) The Wampanoag are contacted by the white community to claim it.
(b) Everyone works together to get it back into the ocean.
(c) The whites prepare to slaughter it, but it unbeaches itself and swims off.
(d) The white community gathers to slaughter it.

3. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?
(a) Two men from the two groups have a friendly wrestling match to win rights to the whale.
(b) It is shared among all the occupants of the island.
(c) There has never been a beached whale before.
(d) It belongs to the Wampanoag.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?

2. What does Caleb call Bethia?

3. What does Caleb's "real" name mean?

4. How does Bethia see what happens with the whale?

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

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