29. Q. While the people were being taken on board the fleet for transportation from their homes, what occurred to the village of Grand Pré? A. It was set on fire and burned. 30. Q. What became of the father of Evangeline? A. During the delay on the shore he died, and his body was buried by the seaside. 31. Q. How were Gabriel and Evangeline separated? A. They were taken to different ships. 32. Q. In what does the story of Evangeline thereafter chiefly center? A. In her long and fruitless search for Gabriel. 33. Q. To what city in the South did a large number of the Acadians go? A. New Orleans. 34. Q. Where did they form settlements? A. On both sides of the lower Mississippi. 35. Q. In what part of her wanderings is Evangeline first specially introduced to the reader? A. With a band of Acadians on a raft descending the Mississippi toward these settlements. 36. Q. While their raft was moored at the Atchafalaya who passed them during the night in a boat going north? A. Gabriel. 37. Q. At a settlement on the banks of the Têche what Acadian did they find? A. Basil the blacksmith, now a herdsman. 38. Q. What did Basil report as to Gabriel? A. That he had that day started for “the town of Adayes to trade for mules with the Spaniards,” and thence he would follow “the Indian trails to the Ozark Mountains,” hunting and trapping. 39. Q. The next morning who started to attempt to overtake Gabriel? A. Basil and Evangeline. 40. Q. When they arrived at the little inn of the Spanish town of Adayes what were they told by the landlord? A. “That on the day before, with horses and guides and companions, Gabriel left the village and took the road of the prairies.” 41. Q. At a Jesuit mission in the region of the Ozark Mountains, what did the priest inform them of Gabriel? A. That “not six suns” had “risen and set since Gabriel” had told him the same story, and then had continued his journey to the far north. 42. Q. What did Basil and Evangeline now do? A. Basil returned to his home, and Evangeline remained at the mission. 43. Q. While at the mission, where did Evangeline next hear that Gabriel was? A. In the Michigan forests by the banks of the Saginaw River. 44. Q. When she reached this place of his lodge, what did she find? A. “The hunter’s lodge deserted and fallen to ruin.” 45. Q. Where had Evangeline landed when she came from Acadia? A. At Philadelphia. 46. Q. Who among those mentioned in the story had died there? A. René Leblanc, the notary. 47. Q. After Evangeline had given up finding Gabriel, to what place did she go? A. To Philadelphia. 48. Q. In what way did she employ her time? A. In administering to the sick and distressed as a Sister of Mercy. 49. Q. In the year 1793 what terrible pestilence was in Philadelphia? A. The yellow fever. 50. Q. Where did Evangeline at length find Gabriel? A. In the Friends’ alms-house as he was dying from the fever. C. L. S. C. ROUND-TABLE.[I]