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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?
(a) It is shared among all the occupants of the island.
(b) There has never been a beached whale before.
(c) It belongs to the Wampanoag.
(d) Two men from the two groups have a friendly wrestling match to win rights to the whale.

2. Who is Caleb?
(a) The Mayfield groom.
(b) The preacher.
(c) A native American young man.
(d) Bethia's oldest brother.

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

4. Where does Bethia accompany her father?
(a) To the mainland.
(b) To visit an ill cousin.
(c) To the trading post.
(d) On one of his preaching trips to the Wampanoag.

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

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

7. What does Bethia say was Satan's influence?
(a) Learning to speak with the Wampanoag.
(b) Talking with a young Wampanoag male.
(c) Disobeying her father.
(d) Drinking out of the gourd.

8. With whom does Caleb agree to study?
(a) No one.
(b) Makepeace and Joel.
(c) Mayfield.
(d) Bethia.

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

10. Who comes to the Merry mill for help?
(a) Makepeace.
(b) Two young Wampanoag.
(c) A young man from the mainland.
(d) Caleb.

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

12. What does Caleb's "real" name mean?
(a) Enlightened one.
(b) Wise one.
(c) Hateful one.
(d) Strange one.

13. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?
(a) Estactic.
(b) Sad.
(c) Calmer.
(d) Detached.

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

15. Why is Bethia envious of Makepeace?
(a) He gets to return to the island.
(b) He has a freer life.
(c) He decides to stay in England where he wants to be.
(d) He marries whom he chooses.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?

2. Who is Noah Merry?

3. Why is Bethia surprised at what Caleb tells her about what he's been doing?

4. Where had Bethia gone to do in the story she is telling?

5. With what kind of influence are the arguers concerned the new guest will bring?

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