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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marguerite point out in the night sky to the children?
(a) Constellations.
(b) The full moon.
(c) A falling star.
(d) The direction to their new home.

2. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?
(a) A hollowed out gourd filled with milk.
(b) A wooden cup.
(c) Cleaned pig intestines.
(d) A rubber glove.

3. Why does Marguerite only use French when she is alone?
(a) The Sargents do not approve of her use of the foreign tongue.
(b) She wants to surprise the Sargents by teaching the language to the children.
(c) She wants to keep it private, only for herself.
(d) The Sargents cannot understand, therefore she is trying to be polite.

4. What does Caleb Sargent often call Marguerite in the beginning of the novel?
(a) Injun.
(b) Frenchee.
(c) Maggie.
(d) Girl.

5. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?
(a) Dolly.
(b) Aunt Hespa.
(c) Debby.
(d) Marguerite.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marguerite quickly learn a bound-out girl is not expected to hold?

2. What does Marguerite wear on a cord around her neck?

3. Where are Aunt Hespa's family from?

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

5. To where were Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother planning to go when they left France?

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