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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. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Severe anxiety.
(c) A feeling of euphoria.
(d) Nausea and then unconsciousness.

2. Why does Bethia take off some of her clothes?
(a) To dance with the Wampanoag.
(b) To help strip the whale carcass.
(c) To launder her outer things.
(d) To go in the ocean and wash off the whale blood.

3. What does Bethia's father wonder?
(a) How Bethia understood the Wampanoag.
(b) Why Bethia would think Makepeace should go with him.
(c) Why Bethia would suggest a native have lunch with them.
(d) Why Bethia wants Noah to escort her home.

4. What does Bethia describe at the opening of this section?
(a) Her current situation.
(b) Why she thinks God is still punishing her.
(c) Why she desires to live as an independent woman.
(d) Her baby sister's habits.

5. Who comes to the Merry mill for help?
(a) Makepeace.
(b) A young man from the mainland.
(c) Two young Wampanoag.
(d) Caleb.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bethia resolve to tell her story?

2. Why does Bethia's father choose some particular passages from the Bible to read when Caleb is introduced?

3. Who does Pastor Mayfield invite along?

4. When does Bethia's twin brother die?

5. What does Bethia pretend when she is with her father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bethia say about the situations in her family's life at this time?

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

3. Where is Bethia sent and what are the aftereffects of her drinking out of the gourd?

4. Where do Bethia's father and grandfather invite Bethia along and what is the purpose of their visit?

5. What does Bethia say about Caleb in this first section?

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

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

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

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

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