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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia impulsively suggest?
(a) Makepeace should go with their father.
(b) Caleb should stay for lunch.
(c) Noah should escort her home.
(d) Her father should go help the Wampanoag.

2. Who is Noah Merry?
(a) A young, white man who kills a Wampanoag in a dispute.
(b) The brother of Bethia's best friend.
(c) Another White who thinks the Wampanoag are being mistreated.
(d) A merchant's son and possible husband for Bethia.

3. Why do the Manitouwatootan move closer to Bethia's community?
(a) To have an exchange of ideas.
(b) In gratitude for the help in treating the smallpox.
(c) To learn more about farming.
(d) To learn about European history.

4. How does Bethia address the woman who waits on her and her father?
(a) In the Wampanoag language.
(b) She does not talk to her as that would be disrespectful.
(c) As Elder Mother.
(d) As Grandmother.

5. Upon what does Bethia's narration focus in this section?
(a) Her life in Nantucket.
(b) Her life in England.
(c) Her life in Cambridge.
(d) Her life with Caleb.

6. What does the perfect day Bethia is experiencing fail to do?
(a) Give her time to herself.
(b) Give her a moment to thank God for the day.
(c) Lift her spirits.
(d) Foretell the tragedy that is to come.

7. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?
(a) Estactic.
(b) Calmer.
(c) Detached.
(d) Sad.

8. 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.

9. Who is Iacoomis?
(a) A Wampanoag who knows how to read and write English.
(b) A Wampanoag native who tried to lead an uprising against the whites.
(c) A Wampanoag who is interested in how the whites farm.
(d) A Wampanoag who teaches the Mayfield family the Wampanoag language.

10. When does Bethia's twin brother die?
(a) At age 12.
(b) At age 10.
(c) At age 15.
(d) At birth.

11. What does Tequamuck fail to do?
(a) Thank Mayfield.
(b) Successfully treat the epidemic.
(c) Ask his chief's permission before making Mayfield leave the tribal grounds.
(d) Drink from the gourd a second time.

12. 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 could help the colony while in England.
(c) Makepeace is a man and should choose his bride.
(d) Makepeace is older now than her father was when her father started a family.

13. What has Caleb been doing the next morning when Bethia encounters him?
(a) Grooming his horse.
(b) Swimming.
(c) Taking lessons from the tribal shamen.
(d) Giving an early morning greeting to the sun god.

14. What happens to the Indian community to which Tequamuck belongs?
(a) They are stricken with malaria.
(b) They move away from the whites.
(c) They are stricken with smallpox.
(d) They all convert.

15. Who comes to the Merry mill for help?
(a) Caleb.
(b) A young man from the mainland.
(c) Makepeace.
(d) Two young Wampanoag.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Bethia describe at the opening of this section?

3. What does Bethia discover about the well?

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

5. What does Mayfield hope for Caleb?

(see the answer keys)

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