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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 is a loom?
(a) A device that makes thread from wool.
(b) A device that cleans raw wool.
(c) A device that dyes raw wool.
(d) A device that weaves thread into cloth.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of part 2, why does Aunt Hespa have Seth draw a pattern of Marguerite's feet?

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

3. What is a bound-out girl?

4. In Aunt Hespa's song, what happens to the young woman's lover?

5. Who are the Morses?

(see the answer key)

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