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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. What is a dory?

2. How many children do the Stanleys have?

3. In Aunt Hespa's song, what is the dress the young woman wanted to make her dress out of?

4. What does Caleb criticize Marguerite for doing after she saw the bear?

5. What image does Dolly suggest the neighbors will compare her children to if they are not washed and cleaned?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Of what nationality is Marguerite Ledoux? Why do the Sargents call her Maggie?

4. What reasons do the men give for stopping in Falmouth before the storm hits their ship?

5. What does Marguerite see in the sky over Sunday Island on the day she goes to help Aunt Hespa with the weaving of cloth?

6. 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?

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

8. 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?

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

10. What makes Marguerite feel as if there is a piece of home in Penobscot Bay?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is unusual about the winter weather the first winter the Sargents are on their farm? What does winter weather prevent? What change in sleeping habits does the cold weather force the family to make? How does Debby get burned? How does this impact the family? What does Marguerite do to try to save her? Does it work? How does Marguerite feel about Debby's injuries and subsequent death? How does Dolly react? What does this reaction say about Marguerite? About Dolly?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following themes in detail, using examples from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Friendship

2) Frontier life

3) Family

4) Isolation

Essay Topic 3

Why is the Sargent family on a ship? Where are they going? For what reason? How much of a risk are they taking by making this move? What could the benefits be of this move? What are some of the dangers? What happens when a storm hits the ship int he middle of the night? What does Marguerite do to help the family? Did she have to do that? How does this action change some of the opinions the Sargents hold of Marguerite? What does this act say about Marguerite's character? About her motivations?

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