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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Seth Jordan?
(a) One of the Sargents' new neighbors.
(b) Marguerite's cousin.
(c) The governor of the village where the Sargents are settling.
(d) The previous owner of the Sargents' farm.

2. Who is Jerusha?
(a) A corncob doll.
(b) Dolly's sister.
(c) Joel's mother.
(d) A sheep.

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

4. To where were Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother planning to go when they left France?
(a) St. Louis.
(b) Canada.
(c) New York.
(d) Marblehead.

5. What is a bound-out girl?
(a) A girl who is sent to boarding school.
(b) A girl who runs errands for a family.
(c) A girl who travels with families in need.
(d) A girl who works as a servant in exchange for room and board.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Marguerite only use French when she is alone?

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

3. What is Passageewakeag?

4. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?

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

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