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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 is wrong with Anne?
(a) She is having a miscarriage.
(b) She was beaten by one of the male students.
(c) She broke her arm.
(d) She has smallpox.

2. What does Makepeace believe about Solace?
(a) Caleb bewitched the child to go drown.
(b) Tequamuck is responsible for Solace's death.
(c) Solace was not destined to live long.
(d) Solace was a bad child.

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

4. Where is Bethia to sleep at Corlett's?
(a) On a rough bed in the kitchen.
(b) In the hayloft.
(c) In the servant's room in the attic.
(d) In a small hut outside.

5. What is Samuel to do at the school endowed by John Harvard?
(a) Work as a tutor.
(b) Be a student.
(c) Teach astronomy.
(d) Teach law.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies unexpectedly?

2. What physical pain must Bethia endure?

3. Why does Bethia go back to the island?

4. What happens in the early part of Bethia's one year at Harvard College?

5. Who eventually becomes Caleb and Joel's tutor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Joel on his way to the mainland?

2. What does Samuel confess to Bethia?

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

4. Why does Bethia tell Caleb to stop calling her Storm Eyes?

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

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

7. What is Smauel Corlett like?

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

9. What does Mayfield's will say about further schooling for Joel, Caleb and Makepeace and how does that affect Bethia?

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

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