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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume I, Chapters 7 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
(a) 1637.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1638.
(d) 1636.

2. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) William Cullen Bryant.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson.

3. The comment that “I have, in vain, attempted to…make her take part with Jennet; but as hopefully might you yoke a deer with an ox” (79) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allonym.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Anaphora.

4. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The frontiersman.
(b) The cowboy.
(c) The SEAL.
(d) The rebel soldier.

5. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) June.
(d) March.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?

2. In what year did Sedgwick’s paternal family arrive in Massachusetts?

3. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?

4. How many addenda accompany Grafton’s letter to Everell (169)?

5. Whom does Everell injure at Bethel?

(see the answer key)

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