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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 favorite memory of Christmas with the Sisters at the convent does Marguerite have?

2. What does Ira Sargent compare to pulling the teeth of a giant?

3. What does Ira fashion to remove the sap from the sugar maple trees?

4. In Aunt Hespa's book, who kept Doubting Castle?

5. How does Marguerite keep going in the right direction during her attempts to retrieve Aunt Hespa?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Caleb arrange to travel to Boston on the Fortunate Star?

2. What warning is stated in the final chorus of the song Aunt Hespa sings once more during the corn shelling?

3. What offer does Joel Sargent make to Marguerite at the end of the novel?

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

5. What type of gathering do the Jordans have shortly after Timothy Welles and Ethan Jordan return from Portsmouth?

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

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

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

9. What news do the men bring back from Sargent's Point when they return from checking on the cause of some smoke seen from Sunday Island?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is a corn shelling party? Why do the Jordans throw one? What do these parties centered around work say about the time period? What type of dance does Marguerite do after the shelling is done? Why do some of the neighbors find it shocking? Why does Aunt Hespa express the opinion that it was a nice dance? What does this dance say about the differences between Marguerite and the people to whom she is bound?

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