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. How does Bethia consider her life at this time?
(a) Intolerable.
(b) Content.
(c) Happy.
(d) Drudgery.

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

3. Why does Bethia not know what will happen to her?
(a) Because her father is negotiating with two families for her hand in marriage.
(b) Because of Caleb's arrival.
(c) Because she is not sure if anyone knows she sipped from the gourd.
(d) Because she is now responsible for her baby sister.

4. Why is Bethia angry after what Noah says?
(a) She thinks Noah's sister is the wrong person for her brother.
(b) She knows the Wampanoag girl and thinks Noah will hurt her.
(c) She has not been given a choice.
(d) She thinks her father is being premature.

5. Upon what does Bethia's narration focus in this section?
(a) Her life in Nantucket.
(b) Her life with Caleb.
(c) Her life in Cambridge.
(d) Her life in England.

6. What does Bethia and the rest of the family do?
(a) Search for Solace.
(b) Tell her Solace is her responsibility
(c) Nothing.
(d) Reassure Bethia.

7. With whom does Caleb develop a close friendship over time?
(a) Pastor Mayfield.
(b) Makepeace.
(c) Bethia.
(d) Joel.

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

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

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

11. What does Noah do the next morning?
(a) Ask Bethia if she likes Caleb.
(b) Go with Bethia to meet Caleb.
(c) Break his leg in a fall off a horse.
(d) Show Bethia the farm.

12. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach?
(a) Everyone works together to get it back into the ocean.
(b) The Wampanoag are contacted by the white community to claim it.
(c) The white community gathers to slaughter it.
(d) The whites prepare to slaughter it, but it unbeaches itself and swims off.

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

14. Where does Bethia accompany her father?
(a) To the mainland.
(b) To visit an ill cousin.
(c) On one of his preaching trips to the Wampanoag.
(d) To the trading post.

15. Why does Bethia say she will continue to do what she has been doing?
(a) She thinks the rights of the Native population are being denied.
(b) So she can remain independent.
(c) Her younger sister is a little bit of an hysteric.
(d) In order to understand herself better.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tequamuck do with a gourd?

2. What happens to Caleb when Noah comes around?

3. What does Bethia suddenly discover?

4. How does Bethia resolve to tell her story?

5. Where had Bethia gone to do in the story she is telling?

(see the answer keys)

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