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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In part 2, what do the men spend most of their evenings doing?
(a) Whittling spoons out of wood.
(b) Reading the Bible.
(c) Building furniture.
(d) Telling stories of their childhoods.

2. What image does Dolly suggest the neighbors will compare her children to if they are not washed and cleaned?
(a) A horse lathered in sweat after a heavy run.
(b) Pigs playing in slop.
(c) Sheep just brought in from the fields.
(d) Cows caught in a muddy paddock.

3. What does Hannah Welles claim is tempting Providence in Part 2?
(a) Allowing Aunt Hepsa to sew a cut on Jacob's head.
(b) Living so close to a known Indian burial ground.
(c) Ignoring the advice of neighbors.
(d) Moving into the new house after blood was spilled in the doorway.

4. Who does Dolly blame for the baby's burns?
(a) The twins for pushing the child close to the fire.
(b) Marguerite for not watching the child closer.
(c) Joel for brining them there and herself for not teaching the child to fear fire.
(d) Ira for putting too many logs on the fire.

5. Who does the children hope will come find them while they are lost in the woods in part 2?
(a) Ira.
(b) Pumpkin.
(c) Caleb.
(d) Joel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Marguerite untangling as the novel begins?

2. In part 3, what advice does Seth Jordan give Joel Sargent when Joel plans on his return to Sargent's Point?

3. Who taught Marguerite to dance the pavane?

4. What is one of the things that delayed the sailing of the Isabella B prior to the Raising?

5. In part 3, who keeps watch through the night while the men go to check on the fire at Sargent's Point?

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