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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many days after Nicholas is hurt do his sisters, Ysabeau and Suzanne, not come to see Marguerite?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

2. What does Marguerite dream of in the Prologue?
(a) Birds.
(b) Waves.
(c) Ships.
(d) Rain.

3. How long after the cabin boy brings the noon meal in Chapter 21 does Roberval pick up a glass of wine?
(a) 20 minutes.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) Half an hour.
(d) An hour.

4. When did Marguerite's mother die?
(a) In childbirth.
(b) When Marguerite was two.
(c) When Marguerite was three.
(d) The night Marguerite was born.

5. What creature does the ship encounter in Chapter 19?
(a) Whale.
(b) Viperfish.
(c) Squid.
(d) Dolphin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only animals that remain on board the Anne in Chapter 20?

2. In Chapter 11, how long has Marguerite been in Roberval's house?

3. How old was Marguerite when her father died?

4. How old was the secretary when his stepfather apprenticed him to a tanner?

5. What colors do the windows reflect in the great room at La Rochelle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marguerite spend her days and nights on board the Anne?

2. How does Marguerite view the harbor, and what does she see?

3. When Marguerite is 13, why do she and her companions move to the north tower?

4. How do Marguerite and Claire start spending time with Suzanne and Ysabeau Montfort?

5. How does Roberval injure Marguerite when she struggles to repeat Psalms from a book he gave her?

6. What punishment does Roberval devise when he catches Auguste and Marguerite together?

7. What does Marguerite see at the market when she goes with Alys?

8. What happens when the ships encounter whales?

9. Why are some men hanged from the Valentine?

10. What does Roberval have Auguste record on June 8, 1542?

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