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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?
(a) Reverently.
(b) As if the book is blasphemous.
(c) With digust.
(d) With fear.

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

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

5. What does Bethia say she often does?
(a) Talk to her Mother as if she were right there.
(b) Wishes she had never taken a sip from the gourd.
(c) Breaks down in tears of grief.
(d) Wishes she were a man.

6. What happens to Caleb when Noah comes around?
(a) Nothing different from ususal.
(b) Caleb becomes very quiet.
(c) Caleb becomes animated.
(d) Caleb seems to have things to do elsewhere.

7. Who berates Bathia for her absence when she returns to the beach?
(a) No one.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her brother.

8. Who is Noah Merry?
(a) Another White who thinks the Wampanoag are being mistreated.
(b) A young, white man who kills a Wampanoag in a dispute.
(c) The brother of Bethia's best friend.
(d) A merchant's son and possible husband for Bethia.

9. When does Bethia expect punishment for her sins?
(a) Not in her present world.
(b) Never.
(c) She does not say.
(d) Only if her father learns of her sin.

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

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

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

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

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

15. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?
(a) The family who owns the bakery.
(b) The preacher's wife.
(c) An elderly neighbor.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia wonder about what the sonquem asks?

2. What does Mayfield hope for Caleb?

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

4. What does Bethia do when she returns from her errand?

5. What does Bethia's name mean?

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