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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Bethia's father doing with the Wampanoag?
(a) Trying to convince them to move off the island.
(b) Converting them to Christianity.
(c) Teaching them to read and write.
(d) Trying to protect their rights.

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

3. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?
(a) To live in one of the vacated homes in the White community.
(b) To live with the Mayfield family.
(c) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.
(d) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.

4. Where is Master Corlett's school?
(a) Boston.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Northhampton.
(d) Nantucket.

5. Why does Bethia's father choose some particular passages from the Bible to read when Caleb is introduced?
(a) They are merely the passages appointed for the day and have no connection to Caleb's arrival.
(b) To demonstrate why Caleb should be welcomed.
(c) To show his parishioners how liberal minded he is.
(d) To have Caleb read some scripture which he knows thoroughly.

6. How does Bethia explain knowing Wampanoag?
(a) She asked a young Wampanoag girl to teach her.
(b) She learned it in school.
(c) Caleb taught her.
(d) She learned it from Iacoomis.

7. What does Caleb call Bethia?
(a) Bright eyes.
(b) Sweet one.
(c) Pale One.
(d) Storm eyes.

8. Why does Bethia take time on her task?
(a) She wants to be away when Caleb comes home.
(b) She is tired.
(c) She wants to be away when her father comes home.
(d) The weather is beautiful.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom is Bethia's father arguing?

2. What does Bethia say was Satan's influence?

3. Who comes to the Merry mill for help?

4. What does Bethia's name mean?

5. What does the perfect day Bethia is experiencing fail to do?

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