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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. Where does Bethia accompany her father?
(a) To visit an ill cousin.
(b) To the trading post.
(c) On one of his preaching trips to the Wampanoag.
(d) To the mainland.

2. With whom does Caleb develop a close friendship over time?
(a) Bethia.
(b) Joel.
(c) Pastor Mayfield.
(d) Makepeace.

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

4. What happens when a whale strands itself on the beach?
(a) The whites prepare to slaughter it, but it unbeaches itself and swims off.
(b) Everyone works together to get it back into the ocean.
(c) The white community gathers to slaughter it.
(d) The Wampanoag are contacted by the white community to claim it.

5. How does Bethia explain knowing Wampanoag?
(a) She asked a young Wampanoag girl to teach her.
(b) Caleb taught her.
(c) She learned it from Iacoomis.
(d) She learned it in school.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to the Indian community to which Tequamuck belongs?

2. Why does Bethia say she will continue to do what she has been doing?

3. What does Caleb call Bethia?

4. What does Caleb say often change with his people?

5. What does Tequamuck fail to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bethia do that she attributes to Satan's influence and what are the consequences?

2. How does Bethia feel about Solace?

3. How does Mayfield act in the aftermath of Solace's death?

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

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

6. What does Bethia's father say about the sonquem when Mayfield returns to the Merry home?

7. What does Bethia say about Caleb's progress with the English language?

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

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

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

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