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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 6 - Part 2, Anno 1661, Actatis Suae 17, Cambridge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia wonder about Caleb?
(a) If his ordeal was God's will.
(b) If her father would ever let her marry him.
(c) If he would ever become a Christian.
(d) Why he even speaks to her.

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

3. What seems strange to Bethia about the tension between Makepeace and his father?
(a) Bethia has already spent a great deal of time with Caleb.
(b) Makepeace is older now than her father was when her father started a family.
(c) Makepeace could help the colony while in England.
(d) Makepeace is a man and should choose his bride.

4. How does Bethia explain knowing Wampanoag?
(a) Caleb taught her.
(b) She asked a young Wampanoag girl to teach her.
(c) She learned it from Iacoomis.
(d) She learned it in school.

5. What does Caleb's reading of Hebrew bring to Bethia's mind?
(a) The exile of the Jews.
(b) That Caleb is smarter than most white men.
(c) That all men desire power over women.
(d) His speaking of his own language.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia and the rest of the family do?

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

3. With whom does Caleb agree to study?

4. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?

5. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?

(see the answer key)

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