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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Caleb tell Bethia when her father and Makepeace go out to wash their hands?
(a) He has missed being with her.
(b) He does not think he wants to learn about the Christian God.
(c) He is to be the next tribal shaman.
(d) He is sorry her mother died.

3. What is Bethia's father doing with the Wampanoag?
(a) Trying to convince them to move off the island.
(b) Teaching them to read and write.
(c) Trying to protect their rights.
(d) Converting them to Christianity.

4. What does Caleb call Bethia?
(a) Bright eyes.
(b) Pale One.
(c) Sweet one.
(d) Storm eyes.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Mayfield traveling to England?
(a) To bring back some more colonists.
(b) To say goodbye to his dying mother.
(c) To receive knighthood from the king.
(d) To raise funds for his work.

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

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

13. When did Bethia's mother die?
(a) Three years earlier.
(b) When Caleb is born.
(c) Recently.
(d) When Bethia is born.

14. 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 now responsible for her baby sister.
(d) Because she is not sure if anyone knows she sipped from the gourd.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?

3. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?

4. With whom does Caleb agree to study?

5. Why is Bethia at Master Corlett's school?

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