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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 favorite memory of her grandmother at Christmas does Marguerite have?
(a) The cookies she baked.
(b) The gifts she often gave.
(c) The shopping trips.
(d) The special cakes she baked.

2. In Aunt Hespa's book, who kept Doubting Castle?
(a) Great Heart.
(b) Dark Depression.
(c) Christian.
(d) Giant Despair.

3. How does Marguerite propose she reach Aunt Hespa for help in caring for Debby's burns?
(a) Climb over the channel on an old rope bridge.
(b) Walk across the frozen channel.
(c) Swim across the channel.
(d) Boat across the channel.

4. Who built the casket for Debby's body?
(a) Ira Sargent.
(b) Joel Sargent.
(c) Seth Jordan.
(d) Ethan Jordan.

5. What complaint does Dolly make in part 4 as Joel prepares the fields for planting?
(a) That he is trying to do everything too perfectly.
(b) That he is not doing a good enough job.
(c) That he is working too hard.
(d) That he is not working hard enough.

Short Answer Questions

1. What task do the men set to as they wait for the final days of winter to blow away?

2. What landmark does Marguerite try to fix in her mind to recall once she returns to Sargent's Point?

3. Why does Joel Sargent refuse to ask any of his neighbors for more ammunition?

4. What is a reel?

5. What does Joel do while in the throes of a fever in part 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Sargents friends and neighbors react when Marguerite dances a French dance?

2. What does Marguerite do when the food runs out and the Indians continue to be a threat to Sargent's Point?

3. What do Caleb and Marguerite do after Debby is injured? What is the result?

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

5. Why does Dolly refuse to allow Marguerite to go to Sunday Island to get help? Why does their signal of a white sheet fail to gain notice?

6. Why does Ira take Marguerite on his first visit to see Abby Welles after the long winter? What does Abby give to Marguerite?

7. 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?

8. What does Marguerite learn was the only thing the Sargents routinely do to celebrate Christmas?

9. What work does Joel take on by himself when Ira and Caleb go away on the Fortunate Star?

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

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