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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 does Caleb criticize Marguerite for doing after she saw the bear?
(a) For scaring it away.
(b) For allowing the dog to attack it.
(c) For allowing the children to follow the dog.
(d) For leaving the butter in the stream.

2. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?
(a) Aunt Hespa.
(b) Debby.
(c) Marguerite.
(d) Dolly.

3. 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) Clean up the wood chips from the chopping of logs.
(c) Press moss into the cracks between the logs.
(d) Carry the furniture into the house.

4. Who rescues Marguerite out of the water after she rescues the cow and calf?
(a) Ira Sargent.
(b) Joel Sargent.
(c) Dolly Sargent.
(d) Caleb Sargent.

5. Who says the young man in Aunt Hespa's song was wrong to leave his lover?
(a) Ira Sargent.
(b) Ethan Jordan.
(c) Seth Jordan.
(d) Joel Sargent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does grit mean as used in Part 1 of this novel?

2. What landmark does Marguerite try to fix in her mind to recall once she returns to Sargent's Point?

3. How many Indians does Marguerite see in the cover and in the woods at the end of Part 4?

4. What reason does the captain give for changing the originally intended course of the ship to the new farm?

5. When Marguerite is awoken by the storm, what is the first thing she does?

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