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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume I, Chapters 1 through 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment that “These letters contain tidings that have opened a long sealed fountain” (sic, 66) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Allegory.

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

3. In what year was Sedgwick born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1815.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1789.

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

5. How many times does Digby attempt to refuse to accompany Grafton from Bethel to meet her baggage in Springfield?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The comment that “the little girl received it from him as passively as the young bird takes food from its mother” (127) offers an example of which of the following?

3. Which of the following is the birth-name of Faith Leslie?

4. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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