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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Dolly quickly insist on putting a splint on Joel's injured leg?
(a) She needs to straighten the leg.
(b) She is concerned the bones will break through the skin.
(c) She wants to give him support to walk.
(d) She does not know what else to do.

2. To where were Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother planning to go when they left France?
(a) Canada.
(b) Marblehead.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) New York.

3. In part 3, it is revealed that Ira plans to make his home where?
(a) In Marblehead.
(b) On an acre of land Mr. Welles has given him.
(c) On a hundred acres of land on Sargent's Point that Joel has given him.
(d) On Sunday Island.

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

5. Why does Marguerite tell the children people in France and England dance the Maypole?
(a) To celebrate birthdays.
(b) To ask for help from the gods.
(c) To celebrate spring.
(d) To ask for help from neighbors in time of trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What cargo does the Fortunate Star carry?

2. From what port in France did Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother sail from the year before the opening of the novel?

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

4. How does Susan claim the Indians eat their clams in part 4?

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

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