Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 Caleb say often change with his people?
(a) Names.
(b) Fortune.
(c) Camping grounds.
(d) Traditions.

2. Who is Caleb?
(a) A native American young man.
(b) The preacher.
(c) Bethia's oldest brother.
(d) The Mayfield groom.

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

4. About what is Bethia increasingly frustrated?
(a) The pressure her brother is placing on her.
(b) The way the Whites treat the native Indians.
(c) Having her life choices made for her.
(d) The way her father sees her as a comodity.

5. What is Bethia doing when she comes upon a group of Wampanoag dancing?
(a) Searching for firewood.
(b) Gathering herbs.
(c) She is lost in the woods.
(d) Gathering mushrooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia wonder about Caleb?

2. Why does Bethia take time on her task?

3. What is the name of Bethia's new sister?

4. What does Caleb call Bethia in private?

5. Who is Bethia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Bethia's father's plans for Caleb?

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

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

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

5. What does Bethia's say is her current situation when this section opens and why is she going to continue writing?

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

7. How does Bethia feel about Solace?

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

9. What is Bethia's hope about the time Mayfield will use in converting the native Indians?

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?

(see the answer keys)

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