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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Whom does Bethia have to listen to when they get to the college?
(a) Corlett.
(b) The Latin teacher.
(c) The minister.
(d) The head housekeeper.

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

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

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

10. 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.

11. How is the journey to Cambridge?
(a) Long but easy.
(b) Brief but difficult.
(c) Long and arduous.
(d) Brief and easy.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Makepeace believe about Solace?

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

3. What does Samuel ask Bethia when they are alone?

4. What does Bethia decide Anne must do?

5. With what does Caleb help Bethia?

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