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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?
(a) The housekeeper is ill.
(b) She likes to stay busy.
(c) The housekeeper died.
(d) Atonement for sins against her mother.

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

5. Why does Bethia feel responsible for her mother's death?
(a) Because her brother suggets that Bethia did something wrong.
(b) For not praying for her mother enough.
(c) Because she argued with her mother not long before she died.
(d) For having drunk out of the gourd.

6. 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 is to be the next tribal shaman.
(c) He is sorry her mother died.
(d) He does not think he wants to learn about the Christian God.

7. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?
(a) Nausea and then unconsciousness.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A feeling of euphoria.
(d) Severe anxiety.

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

9. When does Bethia's twin brother die?
(a) At age 12.
(b) At birth.
(c) At age 15.
(d) At age 10.

10. What does Bethia's father say about Bethia learning too much?
(a) She needs to be careful in what she studies.
(b) It's not good for a pretty girl.
(c) Bethia has learned too much already and is not desirable as a bride.
(d) She can never learn too much.

11. Who is Tequamuck?
(a) A spiritual leader of the Wampanoag.
(b) Caleb's grandfather.
(c) Caleb's father.
(d) Caleb's uncle.

12. Why is Bethia uneasy when she is serving the noon meal?
(a) Makepeace is rude to Caleb.
(b) She believes Caleb is staring at her.
(c) She notices Caleb staring at Solace.
(d) She is uneasily drawn to Caleb.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?

2. What does Caleb do for Solace?

3. Why does Bethia say she will continue to do what she has been doing?

4. Why does Bethia not know what will happen to her?

5. When did Bethia's mother die?

(see the answer keys)

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