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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How has Ira Sargent created a calendar at the new farm?
(a) By cutting notches into the bed post.
(b) By cutting notches into a board.
(c) Cutting notches for each day into a pole beside the front door step.
(d) By cutting notches into a tree in the front yard.

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

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

4. Where does young Jacob sit while eating his midday meal?
(a) On the ship's rail.
(b) On the ship's deck.
(c) On a keg.
(d) On Marguerite's lap.

5. What sport does Caleb indulge in that has resulted in great amounts of meat to be dried for winter use?
(a) Trapping.
(b) Hunting.
(c) Clamming.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. In part 3, who keeps watch through the night while the men go to check on the fire at Sargent's Point?

2. What does Caleb Sargent often call Marguerite in the beginning of the novel?

3. Why is the roof of the cave darkened?

4. Who is Seth Jordan?

5. In part 3, how does Marguerite spend the long night while the men check the fire at Sargent's Point?

(see the answer key)

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