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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the point of view of the novel?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person omniscient.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person limited.

2. What is a dory?
(a) A tool.
(b) A large ship.
(c) A bird.
(d) A small boat.

3. What are the guests at the Jordans' corn shelling expected to do?
(a) Peel the outer covering from dried corn.
(b) Make creamed corn from the ears of corn.
(c) Pick the ears of corn.
(d) Shred the corn kernels from the cob.

4. What do the Sargents do with the sap once they have drained it from the trees?
(a) Store it away.
(b) Drink it.
(c) Boil it.
(d) Lay it in the sun to dry in sheets.

5. From what port in France did Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother sail from the year before the opening of the novel?
(a) Calais.
(b) Bordeaux.
(c) Le Havre.
(d) Arles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the ship the Sargents are sailing on to get to their new farm?

2. What special clothing is Debby wearing for the Raising?

3. What does Ira fashion to remove the sap from the sugar maple trees?

4. How does Susan claim the Indians eat their clams in part 4?

5. Why does Joel Sargent tell his wife the captain of the Isabella B stayed with them for so long?

(see the answer key)

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