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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia wonder about Caleb?
(a) If he would ever become a Christian.
(b) If his ordeal was God's will.
(c) If her father would ever let her marry him.
(d) Why he even speaks to her.

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

3. What does the perfect day Bethia is experiencing fail to do?
(a) Give her a moment to thank God for the day.
(b) Lift her spirits.
(c) Foretell the tragedy that is to come.
(d) Give her time to herself.

4. Why does Bethia say she will continue to do what she has been doing?
(a) Her younger sister is a little bit of an hysteric.
(b) So she can remain independent.
(c) In order to understand herself better.
(d) She thinks the rights of the Native population are being denied.

5. What is the name of Bethia's community?
(a) Great Harbor.
(b) Grand Harbor.
(c) King's Bay.
(d) Nantucket Harbor.

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

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

8. How does Caleb treat the book Bethia is reading?
(a) With digust.
(b) Reverently.
(c) With fear.
(d) As if the book is blasphemous.

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

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

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

12. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?
(a) A fight with her father.
(b) The music and energy of the Wampanoag dancing.
(c) An argument with her brother about his friend he wants her to marry.
(d) An argument with her friend about the Wampanoag's rights.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom is Bethia's father arguing?

2. What does Bethia say she feels about the Wampanoag?

3. To whom does Bethia apprentice herself?

4. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?

5. What love does Bethia describe?

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