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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What special clothing is Debby wearing for the Raising?

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

3. What chore does Caleb allow Marguerite to do that she often finds wearisome, though she refuses to tell Caleb, in Part 2?

4. Who is to sail with the Isabella B when it leaves for Portsmouth?

5. What does Dolly Sargent use to nurse her baby on the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes Marguerite feel as if there is a piece of home in Penobscot Bay?

2. Why do the children follow the dog to the stream? What do they see? What happens next?

3. What story does Ira tell the children their first night on the ship?

4. Why do the Sargents decide to put the livestock in the water and allow them to swim to their new farm rather than transport them some other way?

5. Why does the Captain refuse to enter Penobscot Bay when they reach the mouth?

6. How does life on Sunday Island compare to life on Sargents' Point in Marguerite's eyes?

7. How does Jacob Sargent injure himself during the Raising? How does Marguerite help to care for the child?

8. Why does Aunt Hespa invite Marguerite to her home at the end of Part 2?

9. What luxuries does Marguerite find herself indulging in at Aunt Hespa's house shortly after rescuing the cow and calf?

10. What causes Marguerite a rare moment of happiness during the Raising?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Dolly Sargent? Is she a good mother? Why does she refuse affection to her children? Why does Dolly protest the move to Maine? Why does she go anyway? How does Dolly react when she discovers there is no house on their new farm? Why does Dolly not insist on returning to the city? How does Dolly treat Marguerite? How does Marguerite respond to this treatment? Why does Dolly refuse to burn her child's fingers to keep her from touching fire? Why does she later regret it?

Essay Topic 2

What is a corn shelling party? Why do the Jordans throw one? What do these parties centered around work say about the time period? What type of dance does Marguerite do after the shelling is done? Why do some of the neighbors find it shocking? Why does Aunt Hespa express the opinion that it was a nice dance? What does this dance say about the differences between Marguerite and the people to whom she is bound?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Marguerite Ledoux? Why is she with the Sargent family? Why did Marguerite come to America in the first place? What did Marguerite's uncle dream they could do in America? What was Marguerite's role to be? What happened to her uncle? What happened to her grandmother? Where did Marguerite go after she was orphaned? Why do many Americans dislike the French? What does Caleb call Marguerite? For what reason?

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