12. Q. To what parts of the United States were they taken? A. To North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.
13. Q. In the haste and confusion of sending them off, what occurred as to many families? A. They were separated, and some at least never came together again.
14. Q. What is the story of Evangeline? A. It is the story of such a separation.
15. Q. What is the measure in which the story of Evangeline is written? A. It is what is commonly known as English dactylic hexameter.
16. Q. What is a dactyl? A. It is a poetical foot of three syllables, of which the first is long and the other two short.
17. Q. In dactylic hexameter how many of these feet are there in a line? A. Six.
18. Q. Name some noted classical poems written in dactylic hexameter. A. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, and Virgil’s Æneid.
19. Q. With what description does part the first of Evangeline open? A. With a description of Grand Pré in 1755.
20. Q. What person is introduced as the wealthiest farmer of Grand Pré? A. Benedict Bellefontaine, the father of Evangeline.
21. Q. What was the age of Evangeline at the time the story opens? A. Seventeen.