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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 work do the women indulge after the large meal is finished during the Raising?
(a) Washing dishes.
(b) Laundry.
(c) Darning socks.
(d) Knitting and patchwork.

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

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

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

5. What is the last thing the men do to the house before they finish work at the Raising?
(a) Carry the furniture into the house.
(b) Press moss into the cracks between the logs.
(c) Install glass in the windows.
(d) Clean up the wood chips from the chopping of logs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who responds to Marguerite with friendliness at the Raising that brings Marguerite pleasure?

2. Who are the Morses?

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

4. What job is Marguerite immediately given as the Raising starts?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What causes Marguerite a rare moment of happiness during the Raising?

3. What does Abby Welles claim she would like to have when Ethan Jordan and Timothy Welles prepare to sail to Portsmouth on the Isabella B?

4. What does Marguerite do when she wakes in the night and realizes a storm has taken control of the ship?

5. What is Marguerite's understanding of her indentured servitude to the Sargents? How long is it to last?

6. 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?

7. How does life on Sunday Island compare to life on Sargents' Point in Marguerite's eyes?

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

9. Why do the Sargents decide to put the livestock in the water and allow them to swim to their new farm rather than transport them some other way?

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

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