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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 Bethia want to do?
(a) Both return to the island and have an intellectual life of books.
(b) Marry Noah.
(c) Go back to the island and not marry.
(d) Marry Caleb.

2. What does Samuel want Bethia to discontinue doing?
(a) Defending the natives.
(b) Working in the kitchen.
(c) Seeing Noah.
(d) Studying so much.

3. Who is John Harvard?
(a) The mathematics professor.
(b) The classics professor.
(c) The man who endowed the library.
(d) The Latin and Greek professor.

4. Who arrives the day after Anne is ill?
(a) No one.
(b) Noah.
(c) Makepeace.
(d) Bethia's grandfather.

5. What does Samuel do when Bethia walks away from him?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Runs after her and kisses her.
(c) Says she will marry him no matter what.
(d) Yells that he withdraws his offer of marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position is it likely Joel will hold at graduation?

2. How does Caleb take the news Bethia brings?

3. Where is Bethia to sleep at Corlett's?

4. What does Bethia urge Caleb to do about his anger concerning Anne?

5. What is triggered by the inlaid box in Bethia's possession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Smauel Corlett like?

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

3. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?

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

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

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

7. What does Bethia say about the change in attitude towards Caleb and Joel by the other students?

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

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

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

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