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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?
(a) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.
(b) To live in one of the vacated homes in the White community.
(c) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.
(d) To live with the Mayfield family.

2. What does Bethia's father wonder?
(a) Why Bethia would suggest a native have lunch with them.
(b) Why Bethia would think Makepeace should go with him.
(c) Why Bethia wants Noah to escort her home.
(d) How Bethia understood the Wampanoag.

3. What is Takemmy?
(a) The name of the beach where the Mayfield's live.
(b) The Wampanoag settlement where Bethia and her father go.
(c) The name of the stream that runs the mill.
(d) The name of the woods where Bethia likes to roam.

4. What changes Caleb and Bethia's relationship?
(a) When Caleb becomes a Christina.
(b) When Bethia told Caleb her true name.
(c) When Caleb told Bethia his true name.
(d) Whe Bethia has her menses.

5. Whom does Bethia believe has been taken advantage of?
(a) The Wampanoag.
(b) Her family.
(c) The women in the colony.
(d) The founding family.

6. Where is Bethia sent after the sonquem responds to Mayfield's initial treatment?
(a) To the school house.
(b) Back to be with her mother.
(c) Back to the Merrys.
(d) Back to the tent where they were staying.

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. How does Bethia see what happens with the whale?
(a) As commendable that the whites are following the agreement with the Wampanoag.
(b) Relief that the whale gets away.
(c) As an act of kindness to save the whale.
(d) As a theft by the whites.

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

15. What does Bethia say she feels about the Wampanoag?
(a) She has not met one in person.
(b) She believes they are God's children, though inferior.
(c) She thinks they are too savage to ever be Christians.
(d) She has come to identify with them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What seems strange to Bethia about the tension between Makepeace and his father?

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

3. What does Bethia do when she sees Tequamuck lying in a trance?

4. What does Noah do the next morning?

5. Who is Bethia?

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