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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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 come back and work for one year.
(d) She has to marry within a month.

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

8. What does Bethia urge Caleb to do about his anger concerning Anne?
(a) Challenge the father of the baby to a duel.
(b) Pray.
(c) Offer to marry Anne.
(d) Ask Anne her opinion.

9. Whom does Anne marry?
(a) Joel.
(b) Caleb's brother.
(c) No one.
(d) Caleb.

10. What does Makepeace think is the cause of his father's death?
(a) Fate.
(b) Tequamuck.
(c) Bad weather.
(d) God's will.

11. To whom is one of the students related?
(a) Her grandfather.
(b) Aphra Behn.
(c) John Smith.
(d) Anne Bradstreet.

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

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

14. What tradition does Caleb refuse to obey?
(a) The younger boys serving the older ones.
(b) Cutting one's hair short the first year.
(c) Living in the wilderness for a month.
(d) Jumping from a high tower into the river.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What surprises everyone when Mayfield's will is read?

2. What does Bethia decide Anne must do?

3. With what does Caleb help Bethia?

4. What is one question Caleb asks Bethia?

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

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