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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 is the point of view of the novel?
(a) Third person limited.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Third person omniscient.

2. Whose fresh dress and white knitted stockings makes Marguerite feel self conscious?
(a) Eliza Stanley.
(b) Mary Jane Morse.
(c) Hannah Welles.
(d) Abby Welles.

3. Who does the children hope will come find them while they are lost in the woods in part 2?
(a) Pumpkin.
(b) Caleb.
(c) Ira.
(d) Joel.

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

5. What do Marguerite and the twins spend the morning of the Raising doing?
(a) Planting rows of corn.
(b) Picking feathers from wildfowl.
(c) Garnishing puddings and cakes.
(d) Fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special addition did Dolly make to Marguerite and the twins' dress the morning of the Raising?

2. What is one of the things that delayed the sailing of the Isabella B prior to the Raising?

3. How does Marguerite catch sight of her reflection for the first time in many months?

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

5. In Aunt Hespa's song, what is the dress the young woman wanted to make her dress out of?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Aunt Hespa invite Marguerite to her home at the end of Part 2?

2. What happens to Marguerite's uncle as they approach the shores of America? What does Marguerite find most devastating about this?

3. Why does Marguerite stop to investigate a cave while searching for a way out of the woods?

4. Why do the children follow the dog to the stream? What do they see? What happens next?

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

6. What does Aunt Hespa show and teach Marguerite about while walking across the pastures on Sunday Island?

7. Why are the captain and Joel Sargent surprised to find Caleb and Marguerite still on board the ship after the storm? What does Joel say about Marguerite?

8. What does Marguerite see in the sky over Sunday Island on the day she goes to help Aunt Hespa with the weaving of cloth?

9. What causes some shock and fright as the Sargent family sets eyes on their new farm for the first time?

10. How does Caleb react when he finds Marguerite and the children wondering alone in the woods?

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