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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What excuse does Marguerite give Dolly when she slips out of the house Christmas Eve?
(a) She wants to look for eggs.
(b) She wants to look for blueberries.
(c) She wants to milk the cow.
(d) She wants to gather pine cones for the fire.

2. What does Ira Sargent compare to pulling the teeth of a giant?
(a) Encouraging Hannah Welles to accept his engagement to Abby.
(b) Forcing Marguerite to do a chore.
(c) Making the children obey.
(d) Removing large stumps from the ground.

3. What is the first word the Indian in the woods speaks to Marguerite?
(a) Help.
(b) Hello.
(c) Love.
(d) Noel.

4. In part 3, where does Marguerite put the children to sleep while the men investigate the fire on Sargent's Point?
(a) The barn.
(b) The kitchen floor.
(c) Aunt Hespa's room.
(d) The loft where Seth and Ethan sleep.

5. In part 2, Marguerite stumbles on a cave and finds a pile of bones near a cold fire. What else does she find?
(a) A woman's necklace.
(b) A child's shoe buckle.
(c) A woman's petticoat.
(d) A child's toy.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of part 2, what does Aunt Hespa have Seth draw a pattern of Marguerite's feet on?

2. How do Marguerite and Dolly get Joel back to the house after he is injured?

3. Who does Marguerite think of when she and the Sargents indulge in the maple sugar?

4. In what year does the novel begin?

5. What task do the men set to as they wait for the final days of winter to blow away?

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