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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?
(a) A rubber glove.
(b) Cleaned pig intestines.
(c) A wooden cup.
(d) A hollowed out gourd filled with milk.

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

3. What is Marguerite untangling as the novel begins?
(a) Yarn.
(b) Children.
(c) Wool.
(d) Hair.

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

5. Who rescues Marguerite out of the water after she rescues the cow and calf?
(a) Caleb Sargent.
(b) Joel Sargent.
(c) Ira Sargent.
(d) Dolly Sargent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal do the children find at Falmouth and decide to adopt?

2. Why does Marguerite decide Indians must not be so bad as they travel through Penobscot Bay?

3. What does Marguerite quickly learn a bound-out girl is not expected to hold?

4. From what port in France did Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother sail from the year before the opening of the novel?

5. Where are Aunt Hespa's family from?

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