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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. How many men does Pynchon assign to follow Digby in pursuit of the attackers of Bethel (118)?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.
2. The comment that “they have fallen like our forest trees, before the stroke of the English axe” (84) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Analogy.
3. Hope Leslie’s musing that “I fancy their inquiries will turn out like the experiment of the inquisitive boy, who cut open the drum to find the sound” (151) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.
4. In what year was Hope Leslie published?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1822.
5. How many years pass between Magawisca’s maiming and Hope Leslie’s reported letter to Everell in England?
(a) 7.
(b) 1.
(c) 9.
(d) 3.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?
3. Whose scalp does the indigenous man who accompanies Digby to the Fletcher home carry (72)?
4. The word “rill” carries which of the following meanings?
5. How many times does Digby attempt to refuse to accompany Grafton from Bethel to meet her baggage in Springfield?
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