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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 Caleb criticize Marguerite for doing after she saw the bear?
(a) For leaving the butter in the stream.
(b) For allowing the dog to attack it.
(c) For allowing the children to follow the dog.
(d) For scaring it away.

2. What does grit mean as used in Part 1 of this novel?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Courage.
(c) Stupidity.
(d) Foreigner.

3. What is a jog?
(a) A type of dress.
(b) A type of dance.
(c) A type of exercise.
(d) A type of shoes.

4. Who tells Marguerite she did the right thing after her encounter with the bear?
(a) Joel and Dolly Sargent.
(b) Seth Jordan.
(c) Aunt Hespa.
(d) Abby Welles.

5. In part 3, how does Marguerite spend the long night while the men check the fire at Sargent's Point?
(a) Reciting the rosary despite her lack of beads.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Reciting old prayers from the Bible.
(d) Reading.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who responds to Marguerite with friendliness at the Raising that brings Marguerite pleasure?

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

3. What favorite memory of her grandmother at Christmas does Marguerite have?

4. At the beginning of part 4, what does Ira wish there was between Sargent's Point and the Welles farm?

5. What does Marguerite quietly admire about the men working on the house at the Raising?

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