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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 does Ira Sargent compare to pulling the teeth of a giant?
(a) Removing large stumps from the ground.
(b) Encouraging Hannah Welles to accept his engagement to Abby.
(c) Forcing Marguerite to do a chore.
(d) Making the children obey.

2. What is a trough?
(a) A long, narrow container.
(b) A type of tree.
(c) A place where animals eat.
(d) A bag filled with cornmeal.

3. In part 2, what does Aunt Hespa tell Marguerite she is waiting for in order to complete the squares for her Delectable Mountain quilt?
(a) Dye.
(b) Good wool.
(c) Yarn.
(d) Special thread.

4. What does Caleb ask Marguerite to take care of in his absence?
(a) His drying squirrel skins and wooden boat.
(b) His dried fish and fishing pole.
(c) His hunting rifle and ammunition.
(d) His collection of seashells.

5. In part 3, where does Marguerite put the children to sleep while the men investigate the fire on Sargent's Point?
(a) Aunt Hespa's room.
(b) The loft where Seth and Ethan sleep.
(c) The barn.
(d) The kitchen floor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Indians does Marguerite see in the cover and in the woods at the end of Part 4?

2. What is a jog?

3. What does Marguerite point out in the night sky to the children?

4. What kind of dress to several of the Sargent children wish they could have?

5. What does the Indian call the person who helped heal him in Quebec?

(see the answer key)

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