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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 is a loom?

2. What does Dolly say at the beginning of Part 2 she is grateful for?

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

4. Who is Seth Jordan?

5. How many children do the Stanleys have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Marguerite stop to investigate a cave while searching for a way out of the woods?

2. 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?

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

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

5. What causes some shock and fright as the Sargent family sets eyes on their new farm for the first time?

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

7. What does Marguerite see in the sky over Sunday Island on the day she goes to help Aunt Hespa with the weaving of cloth?

8. How does Caleb react when he finds Marguerite and the children wondering alone in the woods?

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

10. Why do the children need to be cleaned up? Why do they protest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Aunt Hespa? How does Marguerite come to meet her? What is their relationship like from the first meeting? What does Aunt Hespa have that Marguerite admires? What does Aunt Hespa show Marguerite on their first meeting? What does Aunt Hespa have to teach Marguerite? How many times does Marguerite visit Aunt Hespa to help with chores and projects? What quilt pattern does Aunt Hespa show Marguerite? What gift does Aunt Hespa make to Marguerite at the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What is unusual about the winter weather the first winter the Sargents are on their farm? What does winter weather prevent? What change in sleeping habits does the cold weather force the family to make? How does Debby get burned? How does this impact the family? What does Marguerite do to try to save her? Does it work? How does Marguerite feel about Debby's injuries and subsequent death? How does Dolly react? What does this reaction say about Marguerite? About Dolly?

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