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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

6. What does Makepeace threaten to tell their grandfather?
(a) Caleb has cursed their family.
(b) Behia is more native than Caleb is.
(c) Caleb lusts for Bethia.
(d) Of Bethia's behavior.

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

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

9. What does Bethia realize about Caleb as they are riding back to the white settlement?
(a) He has moved beyond her.
(b) She thinks of him as more than a brother.
(c) He should have a native Indian wife.
(d) He will never truly adopt the white man's ways.

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

11. With whom does Caleb take his entrance exams?
(a) A committee.
(b) President Chauncy.
(c) No one as he is not yet ready to do so.
(d) Corlett.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Samuel to do at the school endowed by John Harvard?

3. When did Anne's parents die?

4. Who dies unexpectedly?

5. What does Bethia urge Caleb to do about his anger concerning Anne?

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