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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?
(a) “On the Inequality of the Races.”
(b) “On the Equality of the Races.”
(c) “On the Equality of the Sexes.”
(d) “On the Inequality of the Sexes.”

2. With which of the following does Karcher compare Hope Leslie (32)?
(a) Irving’s Van Winkle.
(b) Cooper’s Hawkeye.
(c) Poe’s Montresor.
(d) Hawthorne’s Prynne.

3. In what year did Sedgwick’s paternal family arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1650.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1635.

4. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?
(a) Faith Leslie.
(b) Bertha Grafton.
(c) Hope Leslie.
(d) Esther Downing.

5. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
(b) The Mothers Book.
(c) Hobomok.
(d) The Frugal Housewife.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?

2. “The only merit claimed by the present writer” in Sedgwick’s preface is which of the following (48)?

3. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?

4. To what sect does Karcher assert Bertha Grafton belongs?

5. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?

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