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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. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Sir Philip Sidney.
(c) Sir Winston Churchill.
(d) Sir Thomas Malory.

2. Which of the following food-sources is noted as “more noble” among the Husatonick (138)?
(a) Pumpkin.
(b) Trout.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Buck.

3. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1828.

4. To which Biblical patriarch is Martha Fletcher compared as she accompanies William to the area of Springfield (61)?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Ishmael.

5. 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?
(a) Simile.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?

2. What does the novel note was the first English name of Boston (181)?

3. What is the name of the indigenous leader at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?

4. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?

5. How long had Everell been abroad when Hope Leslie writes the reported letter to him in England?

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