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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is there tension between Makepeace and his father?
(a) Makepeace wants to go back to England to college.
(b) Makepeace wants to start his family.
(c) Makepeace wants to marry someone his father does not want him to marry.
(d) About having Caleb in the house when Bethia is so young.

2. What is Bethia's father doing with the Wampanoag?
(a) Converting them to Christianity.
(b) Trying to convince them to move off the island.
(c) Trying to protect their rights.
(d) Teaching them to read and write.

3. What does Bethia's name mean?
(a) Lovely one.
(b) Bright one.
(c) Servant.
(d) Wise one.

4. What does Bethia say was Satan's influence?
(a) Drinking out of the gourd.
(b) Learning to speak with the Wampanoag.
(c) Disobeying her father.
(d) Talking with a young Wampanoag male.

5. How does Bethia explain knowing Wampanoag?
(a) She asked a young Wampanoag girl to teach her.
(b) She learned it in school.
(c) She learned it from Iacoomis.
(d) Caleb taught her.

6. What is a pawaaw?
(a) A fire keeper.
(b) A light keeper.
(c) A storyteller.
(d) Spiritual leader.

7. For what does Bethia long?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Her deceased sister.
(c) The island.
(d) Her deceased Mother.

8. What do the visitors ask?
(a) To see Bethia's father.
(b) For help in curing a visiting elder.
(c) Some food.
(d) To take Bethia back home.

9. When does Bethia encounter some of Caleb's gods?
(a) When she is singing by herself in the forest.
(b) When she is dancing with the Wampanoag.
(c) When she looks deeply into Caleb's eyes.
(d) When she is sitting on the cliff overlooking the ocean.

10. What does Tequamuck fail to do?
(a) Thank Mayfield.
(b) Ask his chief's permission before making Mayfield leave the tribal grounds.
(c) Drink from the gourd a second time.
(d) Successfully treat the epidemic.

11. What does Bethia's father plan for Caleb's living situation?
(a) To allow Caleb to determine his own living situation.
(b) To live with the Mayfield family.
(c) To live in one of the vacated homes in the White community.
(d) To travel back and forth between his village and the White community.

12. Where is Solace found?
(a) Drowned in the new well.
(b) In the stables.
(c) Being attacked by some wild dogs.
(d) In a tree.

13. Who is Noah Merry?
(a) Another White who thinks the Wampanoag are being mistreated.
(b) A merchant's son and possible husband for Bethia.
(c) A young, white man who kills a Wampanoag in a dispute.
(d) The brother of Bethia's best friend.

14. What does Caleb do for Solace?
(a) Puts a doll and other things in her casket.
(b) Shows her how to swim.
(c) Teaches her about horses.
(d) Nothing.

15. Who is Iacoomis?
(a) A Wampanoag who knows how to read and write English.
(b) A Wampanoag native who tried to lead an uprising against the whites.
(c) A Wampanoag who teaches the Mayfield family the Wampanoag language.
(d) A Wampanoag who is interested in how the whites farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bethia do when she sees Tequamuck lying in a trance?

2. What happens to the Indian community to which Tequamuck belongs?

3. Who berates Bathia for her absence when she returns to the beach?

4. What does Bethia wonder about what the sonquem asks?

5. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?

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