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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 excuse does Marguerite give Dolly when she slips out of the house Christmas Eve?

2. What news did Seth Jordan bring the Welles that Hannah demands more details about?

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. Who is Marguerite a little afraid of seeing when they reach the Welles' farm?

5. What change in her private thoughts does Marguerite suddenly notice in part 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Joel Sargent injured in Part 4? How bad is the injury?

3. How does Marguerite react to the arrival of the Indians after returning the children safely to the house?

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

5. What does Marguerite do when the food runs out and the Indians continue to be a threat to Sargent's Point?

6. What does Marguerite think of the line dance that the neighbors teach her at the corn shelling?

7. Why does Marguerite think that Ira Sargent has grown sullen? What does she do about it?

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

9. What supplies have the Sargents run low on? Why?

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail, citing evidence from the novel to support your conclusions:

1) Joel and Dolly

2) Joel and Ira

3) Marguerite and Caleb

4) Marguerite and Dolly

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

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?

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