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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is to sail with the Isabella B when it leaves for Portsmouth?
(a) Ira Sargent and Caleb Sargent.
(b) Timothy Welles and Ethan Jordan.
(c) Timothy and Abby Welles.
(d) Ira Sargent and Ethan Jordan.

2. What job did Marguerite want to attend to at the Raising?
(a) Minding the children.
(b) Keeping flies from the food.
(c) Cooking the wildfowl.
(d) Filling the spaces between the logs on the new house.

3. What sport does Caleb indulge in that has resulted in great amounts of meat to be dried for winter use?
(a) Hunting.
(b) Clamming.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Trapping.

4. To where were Marguerite, her uncle, and her grandmother planning to go when they left France?
(a) Marblehead.
(b) New York.
(c) Canada.
(d) St. Louis.

5. What is the last thing the men do to the house before they finish work at the Raising?
(a) Carry the furniture into the house.
(b) Clean up the wood chips from the chopping of logs.
(c) Press moss into the cracks between the logs.
(d) Install glass in the windows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marguerite point out in the night sky to the children?

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

3. What crops did the Sargents plant upon their arrival that are just coming up in Part 2?

4. What is Passageewakeag?

5. What is it rumored Ethan paid for Abby's gift?

(see the answer key)

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