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

2. Who tells Marguerite she did the right thing after her encounter with the bear?
(a) Joel and Dolly Sargent.
(b) Seth Jordan.
(c) Abby Welles.
(d) Aunt Hespa.

3. What does Marguerite wear on a cord around her neck?
(a) A button of her uncle's and a brooch of her grandmother's.
(b) One of her uncle's buttons and her grandmother's plain gold ring.
(c) Her uncle's wedding ring and her grandmother's watch.
(d) Her grandmother's ring and her uncle's photograph.

4. The growth of what plants signal the end of summer for Marguerite?
(a) Strawberries and beans.
(b) Goldenrod and red berries.
(c) Milk thistle and blue bonnets.
(d) Goldenrod and blueberries.

5. In part 2, why does Joel Sargent forbid Marguerite from telling the neighbors about the items she found in the cave?
(a) To keep from spreading fear or bringing retribution on themselves.
(b) To keep from scaring the neighbors into leaving the area.
(c) To keep from inspiring revenge killings.
(d) To keep from being forced from their land.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Caleb often compare Marguerite to, suggesting his thoughts as to her trustworthiness?

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

3. What animal does Marguerite think Dolly resembles in her homespun dress and scoop bonnet?

4. What is the last thing the men do to the house before they finish work at the Raising?

5. What reason does the captain give for changing the originally intended course of the ship to the new farm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What stories does a stranger tell the children when he runs across them on the pasture lands outside Falmouth?

4. Why does the Captain refuse to enter Penobscot Bay when they reach the mouth?

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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