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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Winter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marguerite is awoken by the storm, what is the first thing she does?
(a) Reaches for the children.
(b) Reaches for her money.
(c) Reaches for her rosary.
(d) Reaches for her belongings.

2. Why has the author begun her book with the poem Maypole Point?
(a) To show off her poetic side.
(b) To foreshadow the death of Marguerite.
(c) To build tension in the story.
(d) To preface the story.

3. What does Aunt Hespa bring for Marguerite when she arrives at the Raising?
(a) New stockings.
(b) A doll.
(c) A new dress.
(d) Fresh herbs.

4. 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 grandmother's ring and her uncle's photograph.
(c) One of her uncle's buttons and her grandmother's plain gold ring.
(d) Her uncle's wedding ring and her grandmother's watch.

5. What is an excuse for festivity as Marguerite guesses in the beginning of Part 2?
(a) Wool gathering.
(b) Corn shelling.
(c) Barn raising.
(d) A roof raising.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jerusha?

2. What is a trough?

3. How does Marguerite catch sight of her reflection for the first time in many months?

4. What reason does the captain give for changing the originally intended course of the ship to the new farm?

5. In what language does Marguerite sing her Christmas carols?

(see the answer key)

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