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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job is Marguerite immediately given as the Raising starts?
(a) Keeping flies from the food.
(b) Filling the spaces between logs on the new house.
(c) Watching over the children.
(d) Cooking the wildfowl.

2. In what year does the novel begin?
(a) 1843.
(b) 1643.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1743.

3. What is the name of the ship the Sargents are sailing on to get to their new farm?
(a) Isabella B.
(b) TransStar.
(c) TransAtlantic.
(d) Isadora D.

4. What does Hannah Welles claim is tempting Providence in Part 2?
(a) Allowing Aunt Hepsa to sew a cut on Jacob's head.
(b) Ignoring the advice of neighbors.
(c) Moving into the new house after blood was spilled in the doorway.
(d) Living so close to a known Indian burial ground.

5. What does Marguerite think of her reflection after having not seen herself for many months?
(a) Her reflection seems odd to her becasue it has matured some.
(b) She thinks she looks like an Indian.
(c) She is unhappy with the shape of her nose.
(d) She likes what she sees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marguerite wear on a cord around her neck?

2. Whose fresh dress and white knitted stockings makes Marguerite feel self conscious?

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

4. What is an excuse for festivity as Marguerite guesses in the beginning of Part 2?

5. What do the children talk about as they watch the men work at the Raising?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the children need to be cleaned up? Why do they protest?

2. What type of cuttings does Seth Jordan bring the Sargents? For what reason?

3. What does Aunt Hespa tell Dolly and Marguerite to do with the baby to ensure she will not play in the open fire in the main room of the house?

4. Of what nationality is Marguerite Ledoux? Why do the Sargents call her Maggie?

5. What happens to the cow and her calf when they are put in the water to swim to shore? Who rescues them?

6. What reasons do the men give for stopping in Falmouth before the storm hits their ship?

7. What story does Ira tell the children their first night on the ship?

8. When the ship drops anchor at Falmouth, why do they decide to drop anchor outside of town?

9. What is a Raising? Why does Caleb tell Marguerite it is important to the family?

10. What luxuries does Marguerite find herself indulging in at Aunt Hespa's house shortly after rescuing the cow and calf?

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