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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is revealed about Bethia in the first chapter of this section?
(a) Her health is failing.
(b) She is ostracized from the community.
(c) She is unhappy.
(d) She is still robust and well.

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

3. What does Bethia realize about Caleb as they are riding back to the white settlement?
(a) He will never truly adopt the white man's ways.
(b) She thinks of him as more than a brother.
(c) He should have a native Indian wife.
(d) He has moved beyond her.

4. Who is John Harvard?
(a) The mathematics professor.
(b) The classics professor.
(c) The Latin and Greek professor.
(d) The man who endowed the library.

5. Why is Bethia sad?
(a) Caleb stays in Cambridge.
(b) Makepeace is not happy with her marrying Samuel.
(c) She is very ill.
(d) Her father is not here to meet Samuel.

6. 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.

7. Who does Bethia welcome herself?
(a) A new cook.
(b) A kitchen scullery boy.
(c) A young native woman named Anne.
(d) A new puppy.

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

9. Where is Bethia to sleep at Corlett's?
(a) In the hayloft.
(b) In the servant's room in the attic.
(c) On a rough bed in the kitchen.
(d) In a small hut outside.

10. What does Samuel do when Bethia walks away from him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Runs after her and kisses her.
(c) Says she will marry him no matter what.
(d) Yells that he withdraws his offer of marriage.

11. How does Caleb take the news Bethia brings?
(a) He sobs for a long time.
(b) He says nothing.
(c) He is outraged and decides to return home.
(d) He does not want to hear the details.

12. 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.

13. What is Samuel to do at the school endowed by John Harvard?
(a) Teach astronomy.
(b) Teach law.
(c) Be a student.
(d) Work as a tutor.

14. What physical pain must Bethia endure?
(a) From kneeling in her garden.
(b) From walking up the staris.
(c) From bending over her garden.
(d) From writing.

15. One is one adjective with which Bethia describes Samuel Corlett?
(a) Mean.
(b) Shy.
(c) Friendly.
(d) Dull.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Bethia have to listen to when they get to the college?

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

3. What does Caleb sing?

4. Who is nervous and frightened?

5. What future does Tequamuck see for his people?

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