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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Fall.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sport does Caleb indulge in that has resulted in great amounts of meat to be dried for winter use?
(a) Trapping.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Hunting.
(d) Clamming.

2. What animal does Marguerite think Dolly resembles in her homespun dress and scoop bonnet?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A cow.
(c) A pig.
(d) A hen.

3. What job did Marguerite want to attend to at the Raising?
(a) Minding the children.
(b) Filling the spaces between the logs on the new house.
(c) Keeping flies from the food.
(d) Cooking the wildfowl.

4. Who are the Morses?
(a) Neighbors of the Sargents.
(b) The local magistrate.
(c) Cousins to the Jordans.
(d) Marguerite's family.

5. What is one of the reasons Joel Sargent gives for deciding to sell all he owns to buy this new farm?
(a) The sugar maples on the new land.
(b) The farmhouse.
(c) The large amount of land as compared to only an acre or two in Marblehead.
(d) The ability to grow more food for the family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What crops did the Sargents plant upon their arrival that are just coming up in Part 2?

2. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?

3. Who plays the fiddle during Marguerite's visit at Aunt Hespa's?

4. What is a bound-out girl?

5. What is a dory?

(see the answer key)

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