Lesson XIV, Lines 666-705.

How long time has elapsed since the embarking?  What were the Acadian’s Household Gods?  Why was the exile without an end?  Why should the author use this comparison about their scattering?  Explain fully about the seizing of the hills.  What was the attitude of many Acadians?  Of Evangeline?  What is the desert of life?  Why so called?  What makes life a desert?  Explain fully lines 683-687.  What was there singular about Evangeline’s life?  What effect had this on her life?  What was the inarticulate whisper that came to her?

Pressing On.

Lesson XV, Lines 706-740.

What is a voyageur?  What was Evangeline advised to do by her friends?  Should she have followed their advice?  Give reason.  What was it to braid St. Catherine’s tresses?  What do you think of Evangeline’s reply?  Learn lines 720-727.  Explain.  What was the funeral dirge which she heard What was the voice that replied?  What is the Muse?  Who appeals to it?  How is it to be followed?

SEC.  II.

On the River.  Forebodings.

Lesson XVI, Lines 741-789.

Has the author followed the wanderer’s footsteps in Sec.  I, Part II?  Locate scene pictured in lines 741-745.  How were these people bound together?  How strongly?  Picture the scene in lines 757-765 clearly.  Why Golden Coast?  What is a maze?  What did the moss look like?  What is demoniac laughter?  What purpose does the author serve in bringing in this incident?  Describe scene in lines 763-767.  How did the exiles feel this night?  What about the mimosa?  What are the hoof-beats of fate?  What effect have the hoof-beats?  Was Evangeline in the same mood as the others?  Read to line 863, and then consider carefully the scene and events to line 790.  Study with care.

Night on the River.  The Passing.

Lesson XVII, Lines 790-841.

Explain lines 790-794 and lines 798-799.  Why do you suppose the bugle was not heard?  What if it was?  Why did they row at midnight?  Why does the author bring in something weird again as in line 805?  Note change from night with its weird uncertainty to day with its quiet peace and beauty.  Why refer to Jacob’s ladder?  How can you account for conditions given in lines 824-5?  Note that here a calm precedes the storm.  Who were in the boat speeding north?  What was the last we heard of Gabriel?  What changes had occurred in his appearance?  How did he take his lot and disappointment?  How different from Evangeline?  Does the account of the passing seem reasonable?  Are such occurrences common in general life?

Evangeline’s Dream.  Arrival.

Lesson XVIII, Lines 842-887.