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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume II, Chapters 9 through 15, and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term “sumptuary” has which of the following meanings?
(a) Having to do with food.
(b) Having to do with clothing.
(c) Having to do with cotton.
(d) Having to do with pumping.

2. What token does Magawisca ask of Hope at their final parting?
(a) A comb set with stones.
(b) A gilded flask.
(c) A miniature portrait of Everell.
(d) A necklace made of silver.

3. How many years pass between Magawisca’s maiming and Hope Leslie’s reported letter to Everell in England?
(a) 7.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

4. Who has the canoe ready for Magawisca’s escape?
(a) Cradock.
(b) Digby.
(c) William Hubbard.
(d) William Fletcher.

5. Magawisca’s comment that “I cannot send back the bird that has mated to its parent nest” (241) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what sect does Karcher assert Bertha Grafton belongs?

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

3. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?

4. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?

5. Which of the following food-sources is noted as “more noble” among the Husatonick (138)?

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