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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a bound-out girl?
(a) A girl who is sent to boarding school.
(b) A girl who works as a servant in exchange for room and board.
(c) A girl who travels with families in need.
(d) A girl who runs errands for a family.

2. Who weighs heaviest on Marguerite's mind when she thinks of taking Joel Sargent's offer and leave Maine to live in a convent in French Canada?
(a) Aunt Hespa.
(b) Dolly.
(c) Caleb.
(d) Ethan.

3. What is it rumored Ethan paid for Abby's gift?
(a) A shilling.
(b) Two pounds sterling.
(c) A pound sterling.
(d) Two pence.

4. What task do the men set to as they wait for the final days of winter to blow away?
(a) Moving snow from around the house to prepare a garden.
(b) Fixing new handles for the axes and preparing the other tools.
(c) Whittling more dishes.
(d) Clearing the land of trees for planting.

5. In part 3, who keeps watch through the night while the men go to check on the fire at Sargent's Point?
(a) The Jordan men.
(b) The Sargent men.
(c) The Stanley men.
(d) The Morse men.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ira Sargent compare to pulling the teeth of a giant?

2. In what year does the novel begin?

3. In Part 2, rumors of what delayed the sailing of the Isabella B in one of two incidences?

4. Who does Dolly blame for the baby's burns?

5. Who does Marguerite think of when she and the Sargents indulge in the maple sugar?

(see the answer key)

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