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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Summer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Marguerite decide Indians must not be so bad as they travel through Penobscot Bay?
(a) They often live with the French.
(b) They come from French Canada.
(c) One saved a French explorer.
(d) A Baron of France married one.

2. What do the children eat with their bread that makes Dolly worry about their cleanliness?
(a) Molasses.
(b) Jam.
(c) Honey.
(d) Dried fruit.

3. What is a skiff?
(a) A large sailboat.
(b) A small boat.
(c) A laundry tool.
(d) A surf board.

4. In Aunt Hespa's song, what is the dress the young woman wanted to make her dress out of?
(a) Sprigged calico.
(b) Silk.
(c) Spun cotton.
(d) Cashmere.

5. What does Marguerite wear on a cord around her neck?
(a) A button of her uncle's and a brooch of her grandmother's.
(b) Her uncle's wedding ring and her grandmother's watch.
(c) One of her uncle's buttons and her grandmother's plain gold ring.
(d) Her grandmother's ring and her uncle's photograph.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has the author begun her book with the poem Maypole Point?

2. Who rescues Marguerite out of the water after she rescues the cow and calf?

3. What kind of dress to several of the Sargent children wish they could have?

4. What is the name of the ship the Sargents are sailing on to get to their new farm?

5. How much older than Marguerite is Caleb?

(see the answer key)

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