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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bethia say about Caleb at commencement?
(a) He seems ill at ease.
(b) He is very dignified.
(c) He seems right at home.
(d) He seems detached.

2. What does Bethia urge Caleb to do about his anger concerning Anne?
(a) Offer to marry Anne.
(b) Pray.
(c) Ask Anne her opinion.
(d) Challenge the father of the baby to a duel.

3. Whom does Anne marry?
(a) No one.
(b) Caleb's brother.
(c) Joel.
(d) Caleb.

4. What does Makepeace say he has arranged with the Merry family?
(a) To run the Mayfield farm.
(b) To start preaching on Sundays.
(c) To continue the work with the natives.
(d) To buy out Bethia's indentureship.

5. What future does Tequamuck see for his people?
(a) They will continue as a strong nation.
(b) Unhappy.
(c) Good.
(d) He cannot see the future; it is all fog.

6. What is triggered by the inlaid box in Bethia's possession?
(a) A reminder to start the Christmas dinner.
(b) Bethia's grief over her mother's death.
(c) Bethia's grief over Caleb's death.
(d) Bethia's memories.

7. What do Bethia and Makepeace do every day?
(a) Go to pray for their father at the church.
(b) Visit the memorial.
(c) Help with the fort.
(d) Help cut wood for the kiln.

8. About what is Makepeace jealous?
(a) Their father loved Bethia more than Makepeace.
(b) Other men his age have gone off to college.
(c) Bethia and Caleb's success at learning.
(d) Their mother loved Bethia more than Makepeace.

9. What is Caleb doing when Bethia finds him alone after commencement?
(a) Coughing droplets of blood into his hankerchief.
(b) Staring off into the distance.
(c) Painting his face.
(d) Writing a letter.

10. What does Makepeace threaten to tell their grandfather?
(a) Of Bethia's behavior.
(b) Caleb lusts for Bethia.
(c) Behia is more native than Caleb is.
(d) Caleb has cursed their family.

11. What does Bethia feel the need to do?
(a) Write a poem about Samuel.
(b) Write a poem about Caleb.
(c) Write one last time.
(d) Gain forgiveness from God.

12. About what is Caleb troubled?
(a) That natives are treated as inferiors.
(b) Bethia still being at the school.
(c) Anne still being at the school.
(d) The lack of justice in Anne's case.

13. What does Samuel ask Bethia when they are alone?
(a) For Bethia to marry him.
(b) If she loves Noah.
(c) If she wants to go back to the island.
(d) If she loves Caleb.

14. What does Bethia decide Anne must do?
(a) Drop out of school for a while.
(b) Escape back to the island.
(c) Marry Caleb.
(d) Marry Joel.

15. What does Samuel urge Bethia to do?
(a) Go back to the island.
(b) Find her own heart.
(c) Reconsider marriage with him.
(d) Give him three months to convince her to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Samuel bring to his first meeting with Bethia?

2. What does Samuel do when Bethia walks away from him?

3. What physical pain must Bethia endure?

4. One is one adjective with which Bethia describes Samuel Corlett?

5. What does Caleb sing?

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