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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When does Bethia encounter some of Caleb's gods?
(a) When she looks deeply into Caleb's eyes.
(b) When she is sitting on the cliff overlooking the ocean.
(c) When she is singing by herself in the forest.
(d) When she is dancing with the Wampanoag.

3. Why is Bethia uneasy when she is serving the noon meal?
(a) Makepeace is rude to Caleb.
(b) She is uneasily drawn to Caleb.
(c) She believes Caleb is staring at her.
(d) She notices Caleb staring at Solace.

4. With whom is Bethia's father arguing?
(a) Bethia's mother.
(b) The neighbor.
(c) Bethia's brother.
(d) The precher.

5. About what is Bethia increasingly frustrated?
(a) The way her father sees her as a comodity.
(b) Having her life choices made for her.
(c) The pressure her brother is placing on her.
(d) The way the Whites treat the native Indians.

6. 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 serving as an accountant there.
(d) She is a housekeeper there.

7. What does Bethia at first consider outlandish about what Caleb tells her?
(a) The many gods of the Wampanoag.
(b) He is in exile from his people though he lives with them.
(c) Their gods live everywhere.
(d) He will never marry.

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

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

10. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?
(a) The housekeeper is ill.
(b) The housekeeper died.
(c) Atonement for sins against her mother.
(d) She likes to stay busy.

11. Why is Bethia surprised at what Caleb tells her about what he's been doing?
(a) Her father had asked Caleb to forgo Shamic training for now.
(b) Most of the White men do not swim.
(c) She thought he was going to adopt Christianity.
(d) There is a someone to take care of the horses.

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

13. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?
(a) As a stranger.
(b) More and more like a white man.
(c) As a good friend.
(d) As being deceived.

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

15. Why is Bethia envious of Makepeace?
(a) He marries whom he chooses.
(b) He has a freer life.
(c) He gets to return to the island.
(d) He decides to stay in England where he wants to be.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Solace found?

2. With whom does Caleb agree to study?

3. What does Caleb call Bethia in private?

4. What does Caleb do for Solace?

5. Why is there tension between Makepeace and his father?

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