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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens to Joel on his way back to Cambridge?
(a) His boat is swamped and he is killed by angry natives..
(b) Nothing.
(c) He is swimming when the boat is anchored and is killed by a shark.
(d) He is waylaid by pirates.

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

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

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

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

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

11. When did Anne's parents die?
(a) Just recently on a boat that sinks.
(b) When Anne is fifteen.
(c) They are not dead.
(d) When she is a child.

12. For whom does Bethia watch as the boat sets out for Cambridge?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Her best friend.
(c) Tequamuck.
(d) Noah.

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

14. What position is it likely Joel will hold at graduation?
(a) Valedictorian.
(b) Salutatorian.
(c) Distinguished graduate.
(d) None.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the journey to Cambridge?

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

3. Why is Bethia sad?

4. How does Bethia realize what Caleb is doing?

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

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