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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume II, Chapters 1 through 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?
(a) William Fletcher.
(b) Nelema.
(c) Mononotto.
(d) John Winthrop.

2. 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.

3. The identification of “a cause that certainly had no tendency to render the effect agreeable to him” (268) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Litotes.
(d) Chiasmus.

4. What does the novel note was the first English name of Boston (181)?
(a) Tri-mountain.
(b) Beacon-hill.
(c) Corn-hill.
(d) Charlestown.

5. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of “peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial exchanges of goods and services” (22) between indigenous and settler populations?
(a) Magawisca.
(b) Oneco.
(c) Samoset.
(d) Nelema.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which of the following does Gardiner lodge in Boston (251)?

2. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?

3. How many Pequod were estimated by the settlers to have been killed in the Pequod War?

4. How old is Samoset when he dies?

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

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