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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 the first word the Indian in the woods speaks to Marguerite?
2. What landmark does Marguerite try to fix in her mind to recall once she returns to Sargent's Point?
3. What item of clothing does Dolly threaten to make one of and force the other children to stay indoors while one wears it?
4. Why is one of the ears of corn red?
5. Why does Marguerite tell the children people in France and England dance the Maypole?
Short Essay Questions
1. What quilt does Aunt Hespa give to Marguerite to complete? For what purpose?
2. What type of gathering do the Jordans have shortly after Timothy Welles and Ethan Jordan return from Portsmouth?
3. 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?
4. What does Marguerite think of the line dance that the neighbors teach her at the corn shelling?
5. Who does Abby Welles say a heartfelt goodbye to when the men leave? What does this say about her choice of suitors?
6. How does Caleb arrange to travel to Boston on the Fortunate Star?
7. What warning is stated in the final chorus of the song Aunt Hespa sings once more during the corn shelling?
8. After the Maypole begins to fall apart at the end of Part 4, how does Marguerite finally make the Indians leave Sargent's Point?
9. How do the Sargents friends and neighbors react when Marguerite dances a French dance?
10. Why does Marguerite think that Ira Sargent has grown sullen? What does she do about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Aunt Hespa? How does Marguerite come to meet her? What is their relationship like from the first meeting? What does Aunt Hespa have that Marguerite admires? What does Aunt Hespa show Marguerite on their first meeting? What does Aunt Hespa have to teach Marguerite? How many times does Marguerite visit Aunt Hespa to help with chores and projects? What quilt pattern does Aunt Hespa show Marguerite? What gift does Aunt Hespa make to Marguerite at the end of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss one of the following in detail as it appears in and impacts the plot of the novel, citing examples from the novel to support your conclusions:
1) Symbolism
2) Irony
3) Metaphor
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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