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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Fall.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job did Marguerite want to attend to at the Raising?
(a) Keeping flies from the food.
(b) Minding the children.
(c) Cooking the wildfowl.
(d) Filling the spaces between the logs on the new house.

2. What do Marguerite and the twins spend the morning of the Raising doing?
(a) Garnishing puddings and cakes.
(b) Picking feathers from wildfowl.
(c) Planting rows of corn.
(d) Fishing.

3. Whose fresh dress and white knitted stockings makes Marguerite feel self conscious?
(a) Mary Jane Morse.
(b) Hannah Welles.
(c) Abby Welles.
(d) Eliza Stanley.

4. How many children do the Sargents have?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Seven.
(d) Four.

5. What animal does Marguerite think Dolly resembles in her homespun dress and scoop bonnet?
(a) A pig.
(b) A cow.
(c) A sheep.
(d) A hen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In part 2, why does Joel Sargent forbid Marguerite from telling the neighbors about the items she found in the cave?

2. What reason does the captain give for changing the originally intended course of the ship to the new farm?

3. What crops did the Sargents plant upon their arrival that are just coming up in Part 2?

4. The growth of what plants signal the end of summer for Marguerite?

5. What is the point of view of the novel?

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