View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marguerite wear on a cord around her neck?
(a) Her uncle's wedding ring and her grandmother's watch.
(b) Her grandmother's ring and her uncle's photograph.
(c) One of her uncle's buttons and her grandmother's plain gold ring.
(d) A button of her uncle's and a brooch of her grandmother's.

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

3. When Marguerite finds the cave in the woods, what about it frightens her?
(a) The smell.
(b) The closeness.
(c) The idea of bears.
(d) The bats.

4. What is the last thing the men do to the house before they finish work at the Raising?
(a) Install glass in the windows.
(b) Carry the furniture into the house.
(c) Clean up the wood chips from the chopping of logs.
(d) Press moss into the cracks between the logs.

5. In part 2, what bird does Marguerite show a reluctance to eat?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Wildfowl.
(c) Pigeons.
(d) Geese.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Aunt Hespa's song, what is the dress the young woman wanted to make her dress out of?

2. What does Dolly say at the beginning of Part 2 she is grateful for?

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

4. What image does Dolly suggest the neighbors will compare her children to if they are not washed and cleaned?

5. In part 2, what do the men spend most of their evenings doing?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 323 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample