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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What pain does Bethia believe waits for her?
(a) The pain of her daughter dying.
(b) The pain of Samuel dying.
(c) The pain of hell.
(d) The pain of answering to God for her sins.

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

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

6. Who is Caleb and Joel's first tutor?
(a) The professor of classics.
(b) An elderly, kind gentleman.
(c) A drunk who hates native Indians.
(d) No one.

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

8. How do Samuel and Bethia manage to travel to Italy for his medical studies?
(a) The wealthy widow Makepeace marries.
(b) The entire community collects money to pay his way.
(c) A Duke in Italy pays his way.
(d) He is unable to go to Italy as he wished.

9. What is never mentioned in commencement?
(a) Joel's name or anything about him.
(b) Makepeace.
(c) Bethia's hard work.
(d) Sammuel's tutoring.

10. About what is Caleb troubled?
(a) That natives are treated as inferiors.
(b) The lack of justice in Anne's case.
(c) Bethia still being at the school.
(d) Anne still being at the school.

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

13. What does Samuel urge Bethia to do?
(a) Find her own heart.
(b) Give him three months to convince her to marry him.
(c) Go back to the island.
(d) Reconsider marriage with him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Bethia and Makepeace do every day?

2. Why do Samuel and Bethia return to Cambridge?

3. About what do Bethia and Makepeace argue?

4. Why does Bethia take on a position as housekeeper in another college?

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

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