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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10 - Part 2, Anno 1661, Actatis Suae 17, Cambridge.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Makepeace think is the cause of his father's death?
(a) Fate.
(b) Bad weather.
(c) God's will.
(d) Tequamuck.

2. What does Bethia say was Satan's influence?
(a) Disobeying her father.
(b) Drinking out of the gourd.
(c) Talking with a young Wampanoag male.
(d) Learning to speak with the Wampanoag.

3. 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 live with the Mayfield family.
(c) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.
(d) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.

4. What do the Wampanoag construct on the shore?
(a) A memorial to Mayfield.
(b) A fort.
(c) A totem.
(d) A kiln.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Caleb call Bethia?

2. What does Samuel urge Bethia to do?

3. Who is Caleb?

4. What does Bethia's name mean?

5. What is Samuel to do at the school endowed by John Harvard?

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