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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Caleb sing?
(a) A song of despair.
(b) A song of praise to the sun.
(c) A song of hope.
(d) The death song Bethia teaches him.

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

3. Who dies unexpectedly?
(a) The married son of the governor.
(b) The governor.
(c) The youngest, unmarried son of the governor.
(d) The wife of the governor.

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

5. For what does Master Corlett's in Cambridge say they will allow Joel, Makepeace, and Caleb free attendance?
(a) All of Pastor Mayfield's library.
(b) An agreement from Joel and Caleb.
(c) Bethia as an indentured servant.
(d) There are no strings attached.

6. What tradition does Caleb refuse to obey?
(a) The younger boys serving the older ones.
(b) Jumping from a high tower into the river.
(c) Cutting one's hair short the first year.
(d) Living in the wilderness for a month.

7. To whom is one of the students related?
(a) Aphra Behn.
(b) Anne Bradstreet.
(c) Her grandfather.
(d) John Smith.

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

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

10. What does Bethia choose not to fear?
(a) What she cannot know.
(b) If her father will love her if she is in hell.
(c) Whether she or Samuel will die first.
(d) If her mother will be waiting for her and condemn her.

11. Who arrives the day after Anne is ill?
(a) Noah.
(b) No one.
(c) Bethia's grandfather.
(d) Makepeace.

12. How do Bethia's writings seem to her now?
(a) Like they are written by someone else.
(b) Interesting.
(c) Brilliant.
(d) Foolish.

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

14. What is one thing Bethia has to endure?
(a) Bed lice.
(b) Early hours.
(c) Arrogant students.
(d) Chapped hands.

15. Who eventually becomes Caleb and Joel's tutor?
(a) No one.
(b) Makepeace.
(c) Chauncy.
(d) Samuel.

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Bethia and Makepeace argue?

2. Who is Caleb and Joel's first tutor?

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

4. What is wrong with Anne?

5. What does Bethia urge Caleb to do about his anger concerning Anne?

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