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

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

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

4. In what year, per Karcher (16), does Sedgwick convert to Unitarianism?
(a) 1821.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1824.

5. In what year was Hope Leslie published?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1829.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?

2. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

3. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?

4. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?

5. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?

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