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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia impulsively suggest?
(a) Her father should go help the Wampanoag.
(b) Makepeace should go with their father.
(c) Noah should escort her home.
(d) Caleb should stay for lunch.

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Bethia?
(a) The Mayfield family servant.
(b) The narrator.
(c) A minor character.
(d) The author.

7. What does Bethia wonder about what the sonquem asks?
(a) If the sonquem would have recovered no matter what.
(b) If her father would oppose a marriage to Caleb.
(c) If perhaps Bethia will be able to see Caleb again.
(d) If Makepeace is smart enough to learn the language of the Wampanoag.

8. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?
(a) She would love some linen to make a dress.
(b) She does not speak the language of the Wampanoag.
(c) She believes her cousin will get well.
(d) She wants to marry her brother's friend.

9. Why do the Manitouwatootan move closer to Bethia's community?
(a) To have an exchange of ideas.
(b) In gratitude for the help in treating the smallpox.
(c) To learn about European history.
(d) To learn more about farming.

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

11. What does Bethia discover about the well?
(a) It's been contaminated.
(b) Nothing.
(c) It's collapsed.
(d) It's gone dry.

12. What changes Caleb and Bethia's relationship?
(a) Whe Bethia has her menses.
(b) When Caleb told Bethia his true name.
(c) When Caleb becomes a Christina.
(d) When Bethia told Caleb her true name.

13. Who interferes in the sonquem's request?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Tequamuck.
(c) No one.
(d) Iacoomis.

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

15. When does Bethia encounter some of Caleb's gods?
(a) When she is dancing with the Wampanoag.
(b) When she is singing by herself in the forest.
(c) When she looks deeply into Caleb's eyes.
(d) When she is sitting on the cliff overlooking the ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Caleb agree to study?

2. What does Bethia at first consider outlandish about what Caleb tells her?

3. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?

4. What is Bethia doing when she comes upon a group of Wampanoag dancing?

5. What does Caleb say often change with his people?

(see the answer keys)

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