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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Bethia relieved as they are leaving?
(a) She feels she may as well get her indentured time over.
(b) She is glad she'll still be near Caleb.
(c) Tequamuck is not there trying to disrupt their journey.
(d) She is glad she patched things up with Makepeace.

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

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

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

6. Why does Bethia go back to the island?
(a) To get the rest of her books.
(b) To get Anne.
(c) To see her brother's new child.
(d) To ask Tequamuck's help.

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

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

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

10. What does Bethia want to do?
(a) Marry Noah.
(b) Go back to the island and not marry.
(c) Both return to the island and have an intellectual life of books.
(d) Marry Caleb.

11. What are the repercussions to Anne's miscarriage?
(a) None.
(b) She has to marry within a month.
(c) She has to come back and work for one year.
(d) She has to confess the name of the father of the child.

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

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

14. What surprises everyone when Mayfield's will is read?
(a) He has left Caleb out of the will.
(b) He leaves Caleb money for college.
(c) He designates Bethia as his principle heir.
(d) He leaves two important books to Bethia.

15. Why do Samuel and Bethia return to Cambridge?
(a) To take Caleb news from the island.
(b) For the commencement.
(c) To help Sammuel's dying father.
(d) To take Anne to be with Caleb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bethia describe the proprietor of the school?

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

3. With whom does Caleb take his entrance exams?

4. What does Bethia feel the need to do?

5. What does Makepeace think Bethia feels about Caleb?

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