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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5 - Part 2, Anno 1661, Actatis Suae 17, Cambridge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?
(a) To live in one of the vacated homes in the White community.
(b) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.
(c) To live with the Mayfield family.
(d) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.

2. What happens to Caleb when Noah comes around?
(a) Caleb becomes very quiet.
(b) Caleb seems to have things to do elsewhere.
(c) Caleb becomes animated.
(d) Nothing different from ususal.

3. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?
(a) The preacher's wife.
(b) An elderly neighbor.
(c) No one.
(d) The family who owns the bakery.

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

5. What does Bethia discover about the well?
(a) It's been contaminated.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It's collapsed.
(d) It's gone dry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the visitors ask?

2. What does Bethia do when she sees Tequamuck lying in a trance?

3. Why is there tension between Makepeace and his father?

4. What does Bethia's name mean?

5. With whom does Caleb develop a close friendship over time?

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