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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 is the point of view of the novel?
(a) Third person omniscient.
(b) Third person limited.
(c) Second person.
(d) First person.

2. What is one of the reasons Joel Sargent gives for deciding to sell all he owns to buy this new farm?
(a) The large amount of land as compared to only an acre or two in Marblehead.
(b) The ability to grow more food for the family.
(c) The sugar maples on the new land.
(d) The farmhouse.

3. When Marguerite is awoken by the storm, what is the first thing she does?
(a) Reaches for the children.
(b) Reaches for her money.
(c) Reaches for her belongings.
(d) Reaches for her rosary.

4. Off of what island is it said is the best fishing in Penobscot Bay?
(a) Monhegan.
(b) Mount Desert.
(c) Isle au Haut.
(d) Sunday Island.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children do the Sargents have?

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

3. What do the children eat with their bread that makes Dolly worry about their cleanliness?

4. Why has the author begun her book with the poem Maypole Point?

5. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?

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