Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Bethia's father say about Bethia learning too much?
(a) Bethia has learned too much already and is not desirable as a bride.
(b) She can never learn too much.
(c) It's not good for a pretty girl.
(d) She needs to be careful in what she studies.

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

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

5. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?
(a) Nausea and then unconsciousness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A feeling of euphoria.
(d) Severe anxiety.

6. Why does Bethia feel responsible for her mother's death?
(a) Because her brother suggets that Bethia did something wrong.
(b) For having drunk out of the gourd.
(c) Because she argued with her mother not long before she died.
(d) For not praying for her mother enough.

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

8. What is a pawaaw?
(a) A storyteller.
(b) Spiritual leader.
(c) A fire keeper.
(d) A light keeper.

9. What does Bethia do when she sees Tequamuck lying in a trance?
(a) Sips out of the gourd.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Finds Caleb to ask about Tequamuck.
(d) Tries to wake him.

10. What does Tequamuck do with a gourd?
(a) Pour water from it as an offering.
(b) Smash it in a ceremony.
(c) Drink a foul-smelling liquid out of it.
(d) Nothing.

11. On what does is Caleb introduced to the community?
(a) On Friday evening.
(b) At a meeting by the governing elders on Monday.
(c) At a meeting of the parrish on Wednesday evening.
(d) The Sabbath.

12. With whom does Caleb agree to study?
(a) No one.
(b) Makepeace and Joel.
(c) Bethia.
(d) Mayfield.

13. Why does Bethia say she is so tired in Chapter 11?
(a) From doing her mother's work as well as her own.
(b) She does not know why she is so tired.
(c) From lying awake for several nights writing her confession.
(d) From running back and forth between the fields and the kitchen.

14. Who does Pastor Mayfield invite along?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Bethia.
(c) Bethia's brother.
(d) No one.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?

2. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?

3. Why is Mayfield traveling to England?

4. What does Caleb's "real" name mean?

5. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?

(see the answer keys)

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