Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Caleb's Crossing Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Geraldine Brooks
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Bethia?
(a) The author.
(b) The Mayfield family servant.
(c) The narrator.
(d) A minor character.

2. What does Grandfather Mayfield ask Pastor Mayfield to do?
(a) Go to the mainland to minister to a small settlement there.
(b) Meet with the Wampanoag tribal council.
(c) Officiate at the wedding of his daughter.
(d) Meet with the Merry family.

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

4. How does Bethia see Caleb at this time?
(a) More and more like a white man.
(b) As being deceived.
(c) As a stranger.
(d) As a good friend.

5. What happens to the Indian community to which Tequamuck belongs?
(a) They are stricken with smallpox.
(b) They move away from the whites.
(c) They all convert.
(d) They are stricken with malaria.

6. Why does Bethia not know what will happen to her?
(a) Because she is now responsible for her baby sister.
(b) Because her father is negotiating with two families for her hand in marriage.
(c) Because of Caleb's arrival.
(d) Because she is not sure if anyone knows she sipped from the gourd.

7. What does Bethia say she will continue to do?
(a) Plead for the rights of the native population.
(b) Tell the story of her past.
(c) Avoid marriage.
(d) Watch over her younger sister.

8. Where does Bethia accompany her father?
(a) To the mainland.
(b) To the trading post.
(c) On one of his preaching trips to the Wampanoag.
(d) To visit an ill cousin.

9. Why is Bethia envious of Makepeace?
(a) He gets to return to the island.
(b) He marries whom he chooses.
(c) He decides to stay in England where he wants to be.
(d) He has a freer life.

10. What does Bethia say she feels about the Wampanoag?
(a) She has not met one in person.
(b) She has come to identify with them.
(c) She believes they are God's children, though inferior.
(d) She thinks they are too savage to ever be Christians.

11. Who are the Wampanoag?
(a) The group of Indians that move off the island when the whites arrived.
(b) The native of the area.
(c) The natives with whom the whites have intermarried.
(d) The tribe that lives on the mainland.

12. Why does Bethia do as many chores as she does?
(a) The housekeeper died.
(b) She likes to stay busy.
(c) The housekeeper is ill.
(d) Atonement for sins against her mother.

13. Why does Bethia feel responsible for her mother's death?
(a) Because her brother suggets that Bethia did something wrong.
(b) Because she argued with her mother not long before she died.
(c) For having drunk out of the gourd.
(d) For not praying for her mother enough.

14. What does Tequamuck do with a gourd?
(a) Drink a foul-smelling liquid out of it.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Smash it in a ceremony.
(d) Pour water from it as an offering.

15. What does Bethia suddenly discover?
(a) Makepeace is ill.
(b) There is a rattler in the kitchen.
(c) Solace is missing.
(d) Caleb is standing behind her.

Short Answer Questions

1. By tradition, what generally happens to a beached whale?

2. What does Bethia at first consider outlandish about what Caleb tells her?

3. Where is Solace found?

4. When does Bethia's twin brother die?

5. What has the sonquem asked of Mayfield?

(see the answer keys)

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