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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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. What is Takemmy?
(a) The name of the stream that runs the mill.
(b) The name of the woods where Bethia likes to roam.
(c) The Wampanoag settlement where Bethia and her father go.
(d) The name of the beach where the Mayfield's live.

5. What does Bethia describe at the opening of this section?
(a) Her baby sister's habits.
(b) Her current situation.
(c) Why she thinks God is still punishing her.
(d) Why she desires to live as an independent woman.

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

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

8. What does Bethia do when she returns from her errand?
(a) Read.
(b) Prepares some beans.
(c) Naps.
(d) Knits.

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

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

11. What does Tequamuck do with a gourd?
(a) Smash it in a ceremony.
(b) Pour water from it as an offering.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Drink a foul-smelling liquid out of it.

12. Why is there tension between Makepeace and his father?
(a) Makepeace wants to go back to England to college.
(b) Makepeace wants to start his family.
(c) Makepeace wants to marry someone his father does not want him to marry.
(d) About having Caleb in the house when Bethia is so young.

13. What has the sonquem asked of Mayfield?
(a) For Caleb to marry Bethia.
(b) For some of his medicine.
(c) Instruction in becoming a Christian.
(d) For Makepeace to learn the ways of the Wampanoag.

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

15. What does Caleb call Bethia in private?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Bethia.
(c) Sweet One.
(d) Storm Eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?

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

3. For what does Bethia long?

4. What do the visitors ask?

5. What does Bethia's father say about Bethia learning too much?

(see the answer keys)

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