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

2. What work do the women indulge after the large meal is finished during the Raising?

3. What special addition did Dolly make to Marguerite and the twins' dress the morning of the Raising?

4. Why does Marguerite only use French when she is alone?

5. What is a skiff?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the Captain refuse to enter Penobscot Bay when they reach the mouth?

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

3. How does Jacob Sargent injure himself during the Raising? How does Marguerite help to care for the child?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Why does Aunt Hespa invite Marguerite to her home at the end of Part 2?

7. Why do the children follow the dog to the stream? What do they see? What happens next?

8. What type of cuttings does Seth Jordan bring the Sargents? For what reason?

9. What does Marguerite do when she wakes in the night and realizes a storm has taken control of the ship?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Joel Sargent? Why has he sold everything he owns for a farm on the coast of Maine? What does Joel hope he can do with a farm? Does he? What does Joel find when he arrives at the farm? Why does Joel not allow his neighbors to talk him out of living somewhere else, such as one of the empty islands in the channel? Why does Joel insist on working his own farm that he paid for? What does this say about his character? How does Joel treat his children? How does he treat Marguerite? Why does Joel offer to send Marguerite away at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Why does Joel Sargent give Marguerite the opportunity to go to French Canada? Where will Marguerite go once she arrives there? Does she decide to go? Why or why not? How do the other members of the family feel about Marguerite's opportunity? Her choice? How does Caleb reveal his feelings to Marguerite? What does the ending of the novel imply about Marguerite's future with the Sargent family? Is this an optimistic ending?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Caleb? How does he treat Marguerite in the beginning of the novel? What does he think when Marguerite risks her life to help him save the animals during a storm? Does this change his perception of her? Why does Caleb lead Marguerite and the children into the woods and leave them alone? What happens when Marguerite tries to find her way home alone? How does Caleb feel about this? What do Caleb and Marguerite do together the night Debby is burned? How does this alter Caleb's opinion of Marguerite? How does Caleb feel when he learns that Marguerite might go to Canada to live in a convent? How does he react when she chooses to remain with the Sargents?

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