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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 do Bethia and Makepeace do every day?
(a) Help cut wood for the kiln.
(b) Help with the fort.
(c) Visit the memorial.
(d) Go to pray for their father at the church.

2. What does Samuel urge Bethia to do?
(a) Go back to the island.
(b) Find her own heart.
(c) Give him three months to convince her to marry him.
(d) Reconsider marriage with him.

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

4. Whom does Bethia have to listen to when they get to the college?
(a) The head housekeeper.
(b) The Latin teacher.
(c) The minister.
(d) Corlett.

5. What does Caleb sing?
(a) A song of hope.
(b) The death song Bethia teaches him.
(c) A song of despair.
(d) A song of praise to the sun.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Caleb and Joel's first tutor?

2. Where does Samuel take Bethia the next day?

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

4. For whom does Bethia watch as the boat sets out for Cambridge?

5. What is one question Caleb asks Bethia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Samuel's marriage proposal to Bethia interrupted, and what how does Bethia handle the situation.

5. How do Caleb and Joel do on their entrance exams?

6. What are a couple things Bethia does during her first days at the school?

7. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?

8. What does Bethia do in order to help Caleb when he is dying?

9. What is surprising about Mayfield's will?

10. What is Smauel Corlett like?

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