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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 Samuel take Bethia the next day?
(a) To the library.
(b) To a secret glade in the woods.
(c) To a fair.
(d) To the church.

2. What does Makepeace threaten to tell their grandfather?
(a) Caleb lusts for Bethia.
(b) Of Bethia's behavior.
(c) Caleb has cursed their family.
(d) Behia is more native than Caleb is.

3. How is the journey to Cambridge?
(a) Brief and easy.
(b) Long and arduous.
(c) Long but easy.
(d) Brief but difficult.

4. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?
(a) He believes woman are equal to men.
(b) He wants a wife with whom he could talk intellectually.
(c) He believes woman are inferior to men.
(d) He loves another woman.

5. Why is Bethia relieved as they are leaving?
(a) She is glad she'll still be near Caleb.
(b) Tequamuck is not there trying to disrupt their journey.
(c) She feels she may as well get her indentured time over.
(d) She is glad she patched things up with Makepeace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is never mentioned in commencement?

2. What do the Wampanoag construct on the shore?

3. Who arrives the day after Anne is ill?

4. To whom is one of the students related?

5. How do Samuel and Bethia manage to travel to Italy for his medical studies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is surprising about Mayfield's will?

2. Why are arrangements made for Joel to return to Cambridge before the others from the island?

3. Why has Noah Merry come to Cambridge and what news does he bring?

4. Why do Caleb, Joel and Bethia believe they need to get Ann to the island?

5. How does Bethia help Caleb die with peace and dignity?

6. What does Bethia say to Corlett about applying for a position at another school and what is his response?

7. What is the time frame when Chapter 1 of this section opens and why is Bethia writing again?

8. What does Bethia say about her marriage to Samuel and their trip to Italy?

9. How has Makepeace arranged to buy Bethia out of her indenture?

10. Describe the argument Bethia and Makepeace become embroiled in one day at the memorial for their father.

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