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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 treat does Abby talk her mother into serving Ira Sargent and Marguerite?
(a) Fresh bread.
(b) Pumpkin pie.
(c) Spice cake.
(d) Molasses cakes.

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

3. What do the Sargents do with the sap once they have drained it from the trees?
(a) Store it away.
(b) Drink it.
(c) Boil it.
(d) Lay it in the sun to dry in sheets.

4. What is it rumored Ethan paid for Abby's gift?
(a) A shilling.
(b) Two pounds sterling.
(c) Two pence.
(d) A pound sterling.

5. As the weather warms, what fear comes over the Sargent family?
(a) Fear of failure with the crops.
(b) Fear of disease.
(c) Fear Ira and Caleb will fail to return.
(d) Fear of Indian raids.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ira take to the Welles on his first visit after the worst of the winter storms?

2. What is the name of the girl in Aunt Hespa's song, Calico Bush?

3. In part 3, who keeps watch through the night while the men go to check on the fire at Sargent's Point?

4. What gift does Hannah Welles feel Abby should have returned when she made the choice to marry Ira Sargent?

5. How do Marguerite and Dolly get Joel back to the house after he is injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Joel tell Dolly about their sources of meat now that the cow and most of the chickens are gone?

2. Who does Abby Welles say a heartfelt goodbye to when the men leave? What does this say about her choice of suitors?

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

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

5. Who does Marguerite run into while she is walking in the woods Christmas Eve to sing Christmas carols on her own? What does he tell her? What does she give him?

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

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

8. Why does Marguerite think that Ira Sargent has grown sullen? What does she do about it?

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

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

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