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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a bound-out girl?
(a) A girl who is sent to boarding school.
(b) A girl who works as a servant in exchange for room and board.
(c) A girl who runs errands for a family.
(d) A girl who travels with families in need.

2. What is Passageewakeag?
(a) A French term for cemetery.
(b) An Indian term for place of ghosts or spirits.
(c) An Indian term for holy land.
(d) A French term for homeland.

3. Who are the Morses?
(a) The local magistrate.
(b) Cousins to the Jordans.
(c) Neighbors of the Sargents.
(d) Marguerite's family.

4. In part 2, why does Joel Sargent forbid Marguerite from telling the neighbors about the items she found in the cave?
(a) To keep from inspiring revenge killings.
(b) To keep from scaring the neighbors into leaving the area.
(c) To keep from being forced from their land.
(d) To keep from spreading fear or bringing retribution on themselves.

5. How does Marguerite keep going in the right direction during her attempts to retrieve Aunt Hespa?
(a) She follows Caleb.
(b) She follows the Aurora Borealis.
(c) She follows the tip of the Big Dipper.
(d) She follows Pumpkin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many pairs of shoes does Dolly tell Aunt Hespa there are for her children and Marguerite that winter in Part 2?

3. What animal do the children find at Falmouth and decide to adopt?

4. In part 2, Marguerite stumbles on a cave and finds a pile of bones near a cold fire. What else does she find?

5. What is the name of the girl in Aunt Hespa's song, Calico Bush?

(see the answer key)

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