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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How does Bethia feel when she wakes a few minutes later?
(a) Sad.
(b) Estactic.
(c) Calmer.
(d) Detached.
2. How does Bethia address the woman who waits on her and her father?
(a) As Elder Mother.
(b) She does not talk to her as that would be disrespectful.
(c) In the Wampanoag language.
(d) As Grandmother.
3. Who does Bethia believe will care for Solace?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Makepeace or her father.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) Solace is old enough to care for herself.
4. What happens to Caleb when Noah comes around?
(a) Caleb becomes very quiet.
(b) Caleb seems to have things to do elsewhere.
(c) Nothing different from ususal.
(d) Caleb becomes animated.
5. Why does Bethia take off some of her clothes?
(a) To dance with the Wampanoag.
(b) To launder her outer things.
(c) To go in the ocean and wash off the whale blood.
(d) To help strip the whale carcass.
6. What does Noah do the next morning?
(a) Go with Bethia to meet Caleb.
(b) Ask Bethia if she likes Caleb.
(c) Break his leg in a fall off a horse.
(d) Show Bethia the farm.
7. What does Bathia find herself drawn into?
(a) An argument with her friend about the Wampanoag's rights.
(b) The music and energy of the Wampanoag dancing.
(c) A fight with her father.
(d) An argument with her brother about his friend he wants her to marry.
8. Whom does Bethia believe has been taken advantage of?
(a) The women in the colony.
(b) The Wampanoag.
(c) The founding family.
(d) Her family.
9. Upon what does Bethia's narration focus in this section?
(a) Her life with Caleb.
(b) Her life in England.
(c) Her life in Nantucket.
(d) Her life in Cambridge.
10. How does Bethia consider her life at this time?
(a) Happy.
(b) Intolerable.
(c) Content.
(d) Drudgery.
11. Who interferes in the sonquem's request?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Iacoomis.
(c) No one.
(d) Tequamuck.
12. What does Bethia wonder about what the sonquem asks?
(a) If the sonquem would have recovered no matter what.
(b) If Makepeace is smart enough to learn the language of the Wampanoag.
(c) If her father would oppose a marriage to Caleb.
(d) If perhaps Bethia will be able to see Caleb again.
13. How does Bethia see what happens with the whale?
(a) Relief that the whale gets away.
(b) As an act of kindness to save the whale.
(c) As a theft by the whites.
(d) As commendable that the whites are following the agreement with the Wampanoag.
14. What do the visitors ask?
(a) Some food.
(b) For help in curing a visiting elder.
(c) To take Bethia back home.
(d) To see Bethia's father.
15. What does Caleb tell Bethia when her father and Makepeace go out to wash their hands?
(a) He does not think he wants to learn about the Christian God.
(b) He is to be the next tribal shaman.
(c) He is sorry her mother died.
(d) He has missed being with her.
Short Answer Questions
1. When does Bethia's twin brother die?
2. On what does is Caleb introduced to the community?
3. When did Bethia's mother die?
4. What does Caleb do for Solace?
5. What does Bethia suddenly discover?
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