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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of Bethia's new sister?
(a) Charity.
(b) Solace.
(c) Penelope.
(d) She died with Bethia's mother.

4. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?
(a) She would love some linen to make a dress.
(b) She believes her cousin will get well.
(c) She wants to marry her brother's friend.
(d) She does not speak the language of the Wampanoag.

5. Why does Bethia take off some of her clothes?
(a) To help strip the whale carcass.
(b) To go in the ocean and wash off the whale blood.
(c) To dance with the Wampanoag.
(d) To launder her outer things.

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

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

8. What does Bethia believe about her mother's death?
(a) Her mother wanted to die.
(b) Her mother did not fear death.
(c) Bethia thinks she is to blame for the death.
(d) Her mother will not go to heaven.

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

10. What do the visitors ask?
(a) Some food.
(b) To see Bethia's father.
(c) For help in curing a visiting elder.
(d) To take Bethia back home.

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

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

13. For what does Bethia long?
(a) Her deceased sister.
(b) Her deceased Mother.
(c) The island.
(d) Caleb.

14. Who does Bethia believe will care for Solace?
(a) The housekeeper.
(b) Makepeace or her father.
(c) Solace is old enough to care for herself.
(d) Caleb.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Bethia sent after the sonquem responds to Mayfield's initial treatment?

2. What does Bethia say was Satan's influence?

3. What does Caleb's reading of Hebrew bring to Bethia's mind?

4. Where does Bethia accompany her father?

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

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