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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. Why does Bethia take time on her task?
(a) She is tired.
(b) The weather is beautiful.
(c) She wants to be away when her father comes home.
(d) She wants to be away when Caleb comes home.

2. What happens to Caleb when Noah comes around?
(a) Caleb becomes animated.
(b) Caleb seems to have things to do elsewhere.
(c) Nothing different from ususal.
(d) Caleb becomes very quiet.

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

4. What love does Bethia describe?
(a) Love of the island.
(b) Love for her brother.
(c) Love for her dog.
(d) Love for the preacher's boy.

5. How does Bethia resolve to tell her story?
(a) Less emotionally.
(b) As a disinterested outsider.
(c) Factually.
(d) Creatively.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. About what is Bethia increasingly frustrated?

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

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

5. What does Bethia experience after the action that Satan supposedly prompted?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the effect of Bethia's father's preaching on the Wampanoag.

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

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

5. What does Tequamuck do as Mayfield prepares to leave for England, and what do some believe is the result of Tequamuck's actions?

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

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

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

9. How does Bethia describe Caleb?

10. 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?

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