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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 inferior to men.
(d) He believes woman are equal to men.

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

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

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

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

6. What physical pain must Bethia endure?
(a) From bending over her garden.
(b) From writing.
(c) From walking up the staris.
(d) From kneeling in her garden.

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

8. What does Bethia believe she feels for Caleb?
(a) Like a student.
(b) Like a wife.
(c) Like a mentor.
(d) Like a brother.

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

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

11. 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.

12. What does Makepeace think Bethia feels about Caleb?
(a) She feels Caleb should go back to his tribe.
(b) She feels superior to him.
(c) She lusts for him.
(d) She feels Caleb is better than Makepeace.

13. What does Bethia choose not to fear?
(a) If her father will love her if she is in hell.
(b) If her mother will be waiting for her and condemn her.
(c) What she cannot know.
(d) Whether she or Samuel will die first.

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

15. For whom does Bethia watch as the boat sets out for Cambridge?
(a) Noah.
(b) Her grandfather.
(c) Her best friend.
(d) Tequamuck.

Short Answer Questions

1. What pain does Bethia believe waits for her?

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

3. For what does Master Corlett's in Cambridge say they will allow Joel, Makepeace, and Caleb free attendance?

4. How is the journey to Cambridge?

5. About what is Caleb troubled?

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