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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who established the colony where Bethia lives?
(a) The mayor's family.
(b) Her father.
(c) The school teacher's famly.
(d) Her grandfather.

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

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

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

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

6. What does Bethia and the rest of the family do?
(a) Search for Solace.
(b) Reassure Bethia.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Tell her Solace is her responsibility

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

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

9. Who is Noah Merry?
(a) A merchant's son and possible husband for Bethia.
(b) A young, white man who kills a Wampanoag in a dispute.
(c) Another White who thinks the Wampanoag are being mistreated.
(d) The brother of Bethia's best friend.

10. When does Bethia expect punishment for her sins?
(a) She does not say.
(b) Only if her father learns of her sin.
(c) Never.
(d) Not in her present world.

11. With whom is Bethia's father arguing?
(a) The neighbor.
(b) The precher.
(c) Bethia's mother.
(d) Bethia's brother.

12. What does Bethia say she will continue to do?
(a) Tell the story of her past.
(b) Avoid marriage.
(c) Plead for the rights of the native population.
(d) Watch over her younger sister.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia say she often does?

2. What does Caleb tell Bethia when her father and Makepeace go out to wash their hands?

3. Why is Bethia at Master Corlett's school?

4. What does Caleb's reading of Hebrew bring to Bethia's mind?

5. Who is Tequamuck?

(see the answer keys)

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