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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. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?
(a) With fear.
(b) Reverently.
(c) As if the book is blasphemous.
(d) With digust.

2. What is Bethia's father doing with the Wampanoag?
(a) Teaching them to read and write.
(b) Trying to protect their rights.
(c) Converting them to Christianity.
(d) Trying to convince them to move off the island.

3. With what kind of influence are the arguers concerned the new guest will bring?
(a) Licentious.
(b) Liberalism.
(c) Near-pagan.
(d) Catholic.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Bethia's mother die?

2. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?

3. Who are the Wampanoag?

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

5. Where does Bethia accompany her father?

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