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

2. Who is Caleb?
(a) The Mayfield groom.
(b) Bethia's oldest brother.
(c) A native American young man.
(d) The preacher.

3. Who berates Bathia for her absence when she returns to the beach?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) No one.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia believe about her mother's death?

2. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?

3. Whom does Bethia believe has been taken advantage of?

4. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?

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

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