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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?
(a) As a stranger.
(b) As a good friend.
(c) More and more like a white man.
(d) As being deceived.

2. Where is Solace found?
(a) Being attacked by some wild dogs.
(b) In the stables.
(c) Drowned in the new well.
(d) In a tree.

3. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?
(a) She would love some linen to make a dress.
(b) She does not speak the language of the Wampanoag.
(c) She believes her cousin will get well.
(d) She wants to marry her brother's friend.

4. On what does is Caleb introduced to the community?
(a) At a meeting by the governing elders on Monday.
(b) The Sabbath.
(c) At a meeting of the parrish on Wednesday evening.
(d) On Friday evening.

5. Who is Bethia?
(a) The narrator.
(b) The author.
(c) A minor character.
(d) The Mayfield family servant.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia's father wonder?

2. What has Caleb been doing the next morning when Bethia encounters him?

3. What does Bethia describe at the opening of this section?

4. What does Noah do the next morning?

5. What does Tequamuck fail to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bethia say about her two brothers and what her father says about females?

2. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach and how does Bethia feel about the situation?

3. What does Bethia say about the influence of Cambridge on Caleb?

4. What happens that evening after Caleb ends his friendship with Bethia that makes Bethia believe she contributes to her mother's death?

5. What does Caleb think of Bethia's name and how does he express his feelings about it?

6. How does Bethia come to believe she needs to watch her father preach?

7. What does Caleb place in Solace's casket?

8. What does Bethia say is the reason for the tension between her father and Makepeace, and why is it strange that they are upset with each other?

9. How does Caleb explain his early morning greeting to the sun god?

10. How does Bethia feel about Solace?

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