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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the children hope will come find them while they are lost in the woods in part 2?
(a) Pumpkin.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Joel.
(d) Ira.

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

4. What excuse does Marguerite give Dolly when she slips out of the house Christmas Eve?
(a) She wants to look for blueberries.
(b) She wants to gather pine cones for the fire.
(c) She wants to milk the cow.
(d) She wants to look for eggs.

5. In part 2, what do the men spend most of their evenings doing?
(a) Whittling spoons out of wood.
(b) Telling stories of their childhoods.
(c) Building furniture.
(d) Reading the Bible.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is one of the ears of corn red?

2. What do Marguerite and the twins spend the morning of the Raising doing?

3. In what language does Marguerite sing her Christmas carols?

4. Which of the children begins to show the most ill effects from the harsh winter weather?

5. Why does Marguerite decide Indians must not be so bad as they travel through Penobscot Bay?

(see the answer key)

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