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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 sound does Marguerite hear in the fog that convinces her there are Indians surrounding her?
2. In part 3, what drink does Ira give the dog when it returns from its fight with the Indians?
3. Why does Marguerite tell the children people in France and England dance the Maypole?
4. What is the name of the girl in Aunt Hespa's song, Calico Bush?
5. What favorite memory of her grandmother at Christmas does Marguerite have?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Marguerite react to the arrival of the Indians after returning the children safely to the house?
2. How is Joel Sargent injured in Part 4? How bad is the injury?
3. Marguerite sees smoke at Sargent's Point when she goes to sit before the window after being criticized for her dance. Who does she tell? What do they do?
4. What does Marguerite think of the line dance that the neighbors teach her at the corn shelling?
5. What does Marguerite do when the food runs out and the Indians continue to be a threat to Sargent's Point?
6. 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?
7. What do the Sargents do to the sugar maple trees that makes Marguerite fear for their survival?
8. What work does Joel take on by himself when Ira and Caleb go away on the Fortunate Star?
9. What quilt does Aunt Hespa give to Marguerite to complete? For what purpose?
10. What offer does Joel Sargent make to Marguerite at the end of the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the following in detail and how each impacts the development of the plot in the early sections of the novel:
1) The physical setting of the novel: Isabella B, the ship
2) The physical setting of the novel: Maine.
3) The time period of the novel: 1743
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
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
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