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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 does Ira Sargent compare to pulling the teeth of a giant?
2. What chore are the children asked to work in order to prepare the soil for planting?
3. In part 3, where does Marguerite put the children to sleep while the men investigate the fire on Sargent's Point?
4. What sound does Marguerite hear in the fog that convinces her there are Indians surrounding her?
5. What is a trough?
Short Essay Questions
1. Marguerite sees smoke at Sargent's Point when she goes to sit before the window after being criticized for her dance. Who does she tell? What do they do?
2. What supplies have the Sargents run low on? Why?
3. How do the Sargents friends and neighbors react when Marguerite dances a French dance?
4. What do Caleb and Marguerite do after Debby is injured? What is the result?
5. What does Marguerite think of the line dance that the neighbors teach her at the corn shelling?
6. How does Caleb arrange to travel to Boston on the Fortunate Star?
7. Who does Marguerite run into while she is walking in the woods Christmas Eve to sing Christmas carols on her own? What does he tell her? What does she give him?
8. What does Joel tell Dolly about their sources of meat now that the cow and most of the chickens are gone?
9. How is Joel Sargent injured in Part 4? How bad is the injury?
10. What condition is the dog in when he makes his way back to house after the Indian attack the night of the corn shelling?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Caleb? How does he treat Marguerite in the beginning of the novel? What does he think when Marguerite risks her life to help him save the animals during a storm? Does this change his perception of her? Why does Caleb lead Marguerite and the children into the woods and leave them alone? What happens when Marguerite tries to find her way home alone? How does Caleb feel about this? What do Caleb and Marguerite do together the night Debby is burned? How does this alter Caleb's opinion of Marguerite? How does Caleb feel when he learns that Marguerite might go to Canada to live in a convent? How does he react when she chooses to remain with the Sargents?
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
Why is Marguerite saddened that the Sargents do not celebrate Christmas? Why don't they celebrate Christmas? How does Marguerite have her own private celebration? What does she do? Where does she do it? What does she think about as she celebrates? What gifts does she want to give to the children? Who does she run into during her private celebration? What does this person tell her? How does Marguerite feel about meeting this person? What does she give him? Why does she not tell anyone about this encounter?
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