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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Bethia describe the proprietor of the school?
(a) Mean spirited.
(b) Short sighted.
(c) Kind.
(d) Long winded.

5. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?
(a) He wants a wife with whom he could talk intellectually.
(b) He loves another woman.
(c) He believes woman are equal to men.
(d) He believes woman are inferior to men.

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

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

8. What does Samuel do when Bethia walks away from him?
(a) Says she will marry him no matter what.
(b) Yells that he withdraws his offer of marriage.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Runs after her and kisses her.

9. What does Bethia say about Caleb at commencement?
(a) He is very dignified.
(b) He seems ill at ease.
(c) He seems right at home.
(d) He seems detached.

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

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

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

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

14. What does Bethia feel the need to do?
(a) Write one last time.
(b) Write a poem about Samuel.
(c) Write a poem about Caleb.
(d) Gain forgiveness from God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Anne marry?

2. What is Caleb doing when Bethia finds him alone after commencement?

3. What happens in the early part of Bethia's one year at Harvard College?

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

5. What do Bethia and Makepeace do every day?

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