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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Bethia at Master Corlett's school?
(a) She is attending advanced studies there.
(b) She is helping her brother move there.
(c) She is a housekeeper there.
(d) She is serving as an accountant there.

2. Why does Bethia take time on her task?
(a) She is tired.
(b) The weather is beautiful.
(c) She wants to be away when Caleb comes home.
(d) She wants to be away when her father comes home.

3. Who established the colony where Bethia lives?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) The school teacher's famly.
(c) The mayor's family.
(d) Her father.

4. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?
(a) An argument with her brother about his friend he wants her to marry.
(b) The music and energy of the Wampanoag dancing.
(c) A fight with her father.
(d) An argument with her friend about the Wampanoag's rights.

5. Where is Solace found?
(a) In a tree.
(b) In the stables.
(c) Being attacked by some wild dogs.
(d) Drowned in the new well.

6. How does Bethia resolve to tell her story?
(a) Less emotionally.
(b) Factually.
(c) As a disinterested outsider.
(d) Creatively.

7. What does Caleb call Bethia in private?
(a) Storm Eyes.
(b) Bethia.
(c) Sweet One.
(d) Nothing.

8. What kind of transgression into evil does Bethia say she commits?
(a) Eve-like.
(b) Taking the Lord's name in vain.
(c) Talking in church.
(d) Talking to a male outside the family.

9. What does Bethia do when she returns from her errand?
(a) Naps.
(b) Prepares some beans.
(c) Read.
(d) Knits.

10. What comment by Noah catches Bethia's attention?
(a) About his sister and her brother marrying.
(b) About the Wampanoag ceremony for manhood.
(c) About marriage to Bethia.
(d) About a Wampanoag girl Noah likes.

11. What does Bethia wonder about what the sonquem asks?
(a) If the sonquem would have recovered no matter what.
(b) If perhaps Bethia will be able to see Caleb again.
(c) If her father would oppose a marriage to Caleb.
(d) If Makepeace is smart enough to learn the language of the Wampanoag.

12. Who is Bethia?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The author.
(c) The Mayfield family servant.
(d) A minor character.

13. Why is Mayfield traveling to England?
(a) To say goodbye to his dying mother.
(b) To receive knighthood from the king.
(c) To bring back some more colonists.
(d) To raise funds for his work.

14. Where had Bethia gone to do in the story she is telling?
(a) Take some medicine to a Wampanoag woman.
(b) Find her father.
(c) Return a book she had borrowed.
(d) Harvest some beans.

15. What does Caleb say often change with his people?
(a) Fortune.
(b) Names.
(c) Traditions.
(d) Camping grounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia say she often does?

2. Why does Bethia not know what will happen to her?

3. Who interferes in the sonquem's request?

4. Why does Bethia feel responsible for her mother's death?

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

(see the answer keys)

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