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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caleb's reading of Hebrew bring to Bethia's mind?
(a) That Caleb is smarter than most white men.
(b) The exile of the Jews.
(c) That all men desire power over women.
(d) His speaking of his own language.

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

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

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

5. What kind of transgression into evil does Bethia say she commits?
(a) Taking the Lord's name in vain.
(b) Talking to a male outside the family.
(c) Eve-like.
(d) Talking in church.

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

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

8. What does Tequamuck fail to do?
(a) Successfully treat the epidemic.
(b) Thank Mayfield.
(c) Ask his chief's permission before making Mayfield leave the tribal grounds.
(d) Drink from the gourd a second time.

9. Where had Bethia gone to do in the story she is telling?
(a) Find her father.
(b) Harvest some beans.
(c) Take some medicine to a Wampanoag woman.
(d) Return a book she had borrowed.

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

11. What does Caleb do for Solace?
(a) Puts a doll and other things in her casket.
(b) Shows her how to swim.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Teaches her about horses.

12. What does Caleb say often change with his people?
(a) Names.
(b) Camping grounds.
(c) Fortune.
(d) Traditions.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia impulsively suggest?

2. Where is Master Corlett's school?

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

4. What is the name of Bethia's community?

5. Who comes to the Merry mill for help?

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