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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. In part 3, what drink does Ira give the dog when it returns from its fight with the Indians?
(a) Liquor.
(b) Tea.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Milk.

2. What news did Seth Jordan bring the Welles that Hannah demands more details about?
(a) Marguerite's trek across the frozen channel.
(b) Jacob's injury.
(c) Raids by the Indians during the winter.
(d) The death of Debby.

3. What is the first word the Indian in the woods speaks to Marguerite?
(a) Hello.
(b) Love.
(c) Help.
(d) Noel.

4. How many Indians does Marguerite see in the cover and in the woods at the end of Part 4?
(a) Eight or ten.
(b) Over a hundred.
(c) Five or six.
(d) Eighteen or twenty.

5. Who weighs heaviest on Marguerite's mind when she thinks of taking Joel Sargent's offer and leave Maine to live in a convent in French Canada?
(a) Caleb.
(b) Ethan.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Aunt Hespa.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Marguerite not attend Debby's burial?

2. How does Marguerite keep going in the right direction during her attempts to retrieve Aunt Hespa?

3. What things does Hannah Welles criticize Ira Sargent for in part 4?

4. In part 3, who sings the most often after the corn shelling is done?

5. What book does Aunt Hespa tell Marguerite inspired the quilt pattern Delectable Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What arrives in the channel to cause a great deal of excitement on Sargent's Point? What do they want?

2. How is Joel Sargent injured in Part 4? How bad is the injury?

3. What does Marguerite think of the line dance that the neighbors teach her at the corn shelling?

4. Marguerite sees smoke at Sargent's Point when she goes to sit before the window after being criticized for her dance. Who does she tell? What do they do?

5. What offer does Joel Sargent make to Marguerite at the end of the novel?

6. After the Maypole begins to fall apart at the end of Part 4, how does Marguerite finally make the Indians leave Sargent's Point?

7. What quilt does Aunt Hespa give to Marguerite to complete? For what purpose?

8. What does Marguerite go out into the fog to gather in Part 4? What happens when she does?

9. Before having a meal during the corn shelling, what do the people of the area pray for?

10. What supplies have the Sargents run low on? Why?

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