The Witch of Blackbird Pond

What is the setting of The Witch of Blackbird Pond?

• England, late 1500's
• Connecticut, late 1600's
• Massachusetts, late 1700's
• West Indies, late 1800's

Nat jumped into the water

• to get Prudence's doll
• to save Kit
• to show Kit he could swim
• to warn Kit to pretend she couldn't swim

Kit showed up at her aunt's door with

• seven trunks of fine clothes
• a jug of molasses
• a letter of introduction
• nothing but the clothes on her back

Kit missed Barbados and found that she enjoyed the sanctuary she found in

• Rachel's kitchen
• the Sunday meeting house
• Goodwife Cruff's garden
• the meadow where Hannah lived

Kit was dismissed from her teaching job because

• she didn't have the patience to teach
• her students complained that she was a witch
• her students grew unruly while acting out a story from the Bible
• she neglected to use the Bible in her reading class

After being fired, Kit ran away and was comforted by Hannah, who fed her and listened to her and told her that "the answer is in________"

• thy heart
• thine eyes
• thy Bible
• the stars

The main reason Hannah was shunned by others in Wethersfield was that she

• lived alone with a strange cat
• refused to pay her taxes 
• practiced a different religion
• had a birthmark on her forehead

Prudence learned to read by

• going to the dame school
• listening to her mother read the Bible
• taking secret lessons from Kit
• reading adventure stories with Nat

Who brought Prudence to the trial?

• Matt
• Mercy
• John
• Nat

Prudence convinced the court that Kit's attention to her was not evil by

• displaying the doll that Kit had saved for her
• writing her name and reading from the Bible
• displaying the hornbook that Kit
• acting out a scene from the Bible