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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. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?
(a) It is shared among all the occupants of the island.
(b) There has never been a beached whale before.
(c) It belongs to the Wampanoag.
(d) Two men from the two groups have a friendly wrestling match to win rights to the whale.

2. What does Caleb call Bethia in private?
(a) Bethia.
(b) Storm Eyes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Sweet One.

3. Where had Bethia gone to do in the story she is telling?
(a) Return a book she had borrowed.
(b) Find her father.
(c) Take some medicine to a Wampanoag woman.
(d) Harvest some beans.

4. Why does Bethia say she is so tired in Chapter 11?
(a) From lying awake for several nights writing her confession.
(b) She does not know why she is so tired.
(c) From doing her mother's work as well as her own.
(d) From running back and forth between the fields and the kitchen.

5. Why is Mayfield traveling to England?
(a) To raise funds for his work.
(b) To receive knighthood from the king.
(c) To bring back some more colonists.
(d) To say goodbye to his dying mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon what does Bethia's narration focus in this section?

2. What does Bethia discover about the well?

3. Who interferes in the sonquem's request?

4. Why is Bethia uneasy when she is serving the noon meal?

5. How does Bethia consider her life at this time?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Bethia's father's dealings with the Wampanoag, and how does Bethia learn their language?

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

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

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

6. How does the first attempt at the conversion of the sonquem go and what changes that?

7. When and how does Bethia's father introduce Caleb to the White settlement?

8. Who establishes the colony where Bethia lives and whom does Bethia feel has been wronged?

9. What happens when Bethia returns to where the Wampanoag are dancing?

10. What does Noah show Bethia the next morning and what is her reaction?

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