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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. About whom does Hope inquire first upon reaching Bethel (119)?
(a) Martha.
(b) Jennet.
(c) Everell.
(d) Faith.

2. In what year was Sedgwick first published?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1822.

3. How, per the novel, is Esther Downing related to Governor Winthrop (187)?
(a) Daughter of his brother.
(b) Daughter of his wife’s sister.
(c) Daughter of his sister’s husband.
(d) Daughter of his sister.

4. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?
(a) Robert.
(b) Charles.
(c) Harry.
(d) Theodore.

5. 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) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?

3. Whom does Everell injure at Bethel?

4. Which critic does Karcher cite as demonstrating ambiguities about the Puritans in Hope Leslie (29)?

5. How many times does Digby attempt to refuse to accompany Grafton from Bethel to meet her baggage in Springfield?

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