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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the captain say takes you places without waiting for no road?
(a) The sea.
(b) A river.
(c) Storm clouds.
(d) The wind.

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

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

4. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?
(a) A wooden cup.
(b) A rubber glove.
(c) Cleaned pig intestines.
(d) A hollowed out gourd filled with milk.

5. What does Aunt Hespa boil in milk to help cure health complaints?
(a) Poppies.
(b) Sheep laurel petals.
(c) Bayberry leaves.
(d) Mullein leaves.

6. In part 2, what does Aunt Hespa tell Marguerite she is waiting for in order to complete the squares for her Delectable Mountain quilt?
(a) Special thread.
(b) Good wool.
(c) Dye.
(d) Yarn.

7. How much older than Marguerite is Caleb?
(a) Two years.
(b) A year.
(c) Three years.
(d) The same age.

8. What does Dolly say at the beginning of Part 2 she is grateful for?
(a) A good servant in Marguerite.
(b) The health of her children.
(c) Good neighbors willing to work.
(d) Good weather for the Raising.

9. How many children do the Stanleys have?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

10. From what port in France did Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother sail from the year before the opening of the novel?
(a) Bordeaux.
(b) Arles.
(c) Le Havre.
(d) Calais.

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

12. How does Marguerite catch sight of her reflection for the first time in many months?
(a) She sees her reflection in the water.
(b) She sees her reflection in a window.
(c) She finds a mirror among Dolly's belongings.
(d) She finds a looking glass in the woods.

13. Who plays the fiddle during Marguerite's visit at Aunt Hespa's?
(a) Ira Sargent.
(b) Joel Sargent.
(c) Ethan Jordan.
(d) Seth Jordan.

14. What does Marguerite point out in the night sky to the children?
(a) The direction to their new home.
(b) Constellations.
(c) The full moon.
(d) A falling star.

15. At the end of part 2, why does Aunt Hespa have Seth draw a pattern of Marguerite's feet?
(a) To show her how to make a drawing of a turkey.
(b) To create a sock-like thing to help her new boots fit better.
(c) To prepare to build her new shoes.
(d) To help her learn how to make her own stockings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In part 2, what bird does Marguerite show a reluctance to eat?

3. What does Marguerite quietly admire about the men working on the house at the Raising?

4. Of whom is the poem Maypole Point about?

5. When Marguerite finds the cave in the woods, what about it frightens her?

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