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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Off of what island is it said is the best fishing in Penobscot Bay?
2. How much older than Marguerite is Caleb?
3. What is a skiff?
4. Why does Joel Sargent tell his wife the captain of the Isabella B stayed with them for so long?
5. What animal do the children find at Falmouth and decide to adopt?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Caleb react when he finds Marguerite and the children wondering alone in the woods?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. What happens to Marguerite's uncle as they approach the shores of America? What does Marguerite find most devastating about this?
5. What story does Ira tell the children their first night on the ship?
6. How does Marguerite become lost in the woods?
7. 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?
8. How does Jacob Sargent injure himself during the Raising? How does Marguerite help to care for the child?
9. What reasons do the men give for stopping in Falmouth before the storm hits their ship?
10. What causes Marguerite a rare moment of happiness during the Raising?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Marguerite Ledoux? Why is she with the Sargent family? Why did Marguerite come to America in the first place? What did Marguerite's uncle dream they could do in America? What was Marguerite's role to be? What happened to her uncle? What happened to her grandmother? Where did Marguerite go after she was orphaned? Why do many Americans dislike the French? What does Caleb call Marguerite? For what reason?
Essay Topic 2
Who is Ira Sargent? Why has he come to help settle his brother's new farm? What does Ira hope to get out of the work on the farm? Who catches Ira's eye from nearly the beginning? Who else was courting this girl? When does Ira learn that this girl has chosen him? Why does Ira not marry her immediately? What does Ira want to do before he can marry? Why does Ira leave on a ship for a time int he middle of summer? How does this impact the work on the farm?
Essay Topic 3
Why do the Sargents stop in Falmouth after the storm? What do the children do when they leave the ship? What do they find? Who tells them about Indians? Why do these stories entertain the children but frighten the adults? What does Dolly Sargent think of these stories? How do these stories foreshadow trouble for the Sargent family? What do these stories say about the time period in which the novel is set? Do these stories follow what the reader should know about the history of this time period and this area of Maine? Explain.
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