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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Marguerite decide Indians must not be so bad as they travel through Penobscot Bay?
(a) They often live with the French.
(b) One saved a French explorer.
(c) They come from French Canada.
(d) A Baron of France married one.

2. What is Passageewakeag?
(a) An Indian term for holy land.
(b) An Indian term for place of ghosts or spirits.
(c) A French term for cemetery.
(d) A French term for homeland.

3. How many children do the Sargents have?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

4. What is an excuse for festivity as Marguerite guesses in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Wool gathering.
(b) Barn raising.
(c) Corn shelling.
(d) A roof raising.

5. Who plays the fiddle during Marguerite's visit at Aunt Hespa's?
(a) Seth Jordan.
(b) Ira Sargent.
(c) Joel Sargent.
(d) Ethan Jordan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Marguerite finds the cave in the woods, what about it frightens her?

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

3. Who is Jerusha?

4. Who says the young man in Aunt Hespa's song was wrong to leave his lover?

5. What does a voice in the chaos of the Indians fighting over the cloth from the Maypole say to Marguerite that causes her to stop fearing for herself and the children?

(see the answer key)

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