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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. With what does Caleb help Bethia?
(a) Sorting out her feelings about her suitors.
(b) How to catch a rabbit.
(c) Standing up to her brother.
(d) Standing up to Corlett.

5. About what do Bethia and Makepeace argue?
(a) Whether their father would want Bethia to still marry Noah.
(b) If their father would want Makepeace to go to England.
(c) Whether their father would want Bethia to still marry John Smith.
(d) How changed Caleb really is.

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

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

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

9. What do Bethia and Makepeace do every day?
(a) Go to pray for their father at the church.
(b) Help with the fort.
(c) Visit the memorial.
(d) Help cut wood for the kiln.

10. 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 leaves two important books to Bethia.
(d) He designates Bethia as his principle heir.

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

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

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

14. What do the Wampanoag construct on the shore?
(a) A kiln.
(b) A totem.
(c) A fort.
(d) A memorial to Mayfield.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the repercussions to Anne's miscarriage?

2. What happens to Joel on his way back to Cambridge?

3. What does Makepeace think is the cause of his father's death?

4. To whom is one of the students related?

5. What does Bethia realize about Caleb as they are riding back to the white settlement?

(see the answer keys)

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