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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is nervous and frightened?
(a) Bethia.
(b) Anne.
(c) The new cook.
(d) The puppy.

3. What does Makepeace think is the cause of his father's death?
(a) Tequamuck.
(b) Fate.
(c) God's will.
(d) Bad weather.

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

5. What does Samuel want Bethia to discontinue doing?
(a) Seeing Noah.
(b) Studying so much.
(c) Working in the kitchen.
(d) Defending the natives.

6. What does Makepeace believe about Solace?
(a) Caleb bewitched the child to go drown.
(b) Solace was not destined to live long.
(c) Tequamuck is responsible for Solace's death.
(d) Solace was a bad child.

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

8. Where does Samuel take Bethia the next day?
(a) To a fair.
(b) To a secret glade in the woods.
(c) To the library.
(d) To the church.

9. What happens in the early part of Bethia's one year at Harvard College?
(a) She comes to realize that she and Caleb cannot marry.
(b) She is accosted by one of the last-year students.
(c) She becomes very ill.
(d) Caleb and Joel are first shunned then welcomed.

10. What do the Wampanoag construct on the shore?
(a) A memorial to Mayfield.
(b) A totem.
(c) A kiln.
(d) A fort.

11. Who is Caleb and Joel's first tutor?
(a) A drunk who hates native Indians.
(b) The professor of classics.
(c) An elderly, kind gentleman.
(d) No one.

12. What does Bethia believe she feels for Caleb?
(a) Like a mentor.
(b) Like a student.
(c) Like a wife.
(d) Like a brother.

13. With whom does Bethia talk about Samuel and Noah?
(a) Makepeace.
(b) Anne.
(c) No one.
(d) Caleb.

14. How does Bethia describe the proprietor of the school?
(a) Kind.
(b) Mean spirited.
(c) Short sighted.
(d) Long winded.

15. What does Makepeace think Bethia feels about Caleb?
(a) She feels Caleb is better than Makepeace.
(b) She lusts for him.
(c) She feels Caleb should go back to his tribe.
(d) She feels superior to him.

Short Answer Questions

1. For whom does Bethia watch as the boat sets out for Cambridge?

2. Why do Samuel and Bethia return to Cambridge?

3. What is triggered by the inlaid box in Bethia's possession?

4. Why does Bethia take on a position as housekeeper in another college?

5. How do Bethia's writings seem to her now?

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