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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. The comment that “A boy’s courage is a keen weapon that wants temper” (89) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.

2. In what month do the Fletchers accompany Holioke to Northampton?
(a) October.
(b) September.
(c) November.
(d) August.

3. With which of the following does Hope Leslie gift Antonio?
(a) A necklace.
(b) A fan.
(c) A bracelet.
(d) A fing.

4. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?
(a) Documented history.
(b) Genetic superiority.
(c) Inborn morality.
(d) Access to resources.

5. What does the novel note was the indigenous name of what became the Boston area (181)?
(a) Shawmut.
(b) Scituate.
(c) Snipatuit.
(d) Siasconset.

Short Answer Questions

1. How high does the novel note the tallest of Boston’s hills stands?

2. At approximately what time do Puritan Sabbath services end in the novel?

3. Whose scalp does the indigenous man who accompanies Digby to the Fletcher home carry (72)?

4. Hope Leslie’s comment that “‘It is a night,’ she continued, looking up at the bright moon, ‘to make one long to soar—so I will just spread my wings, and leave you to crawl on the earth’” (222) offers an example of which of the following?

5. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?

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