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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The frontiersman.
(b) The SEAL.
(c) The rebel soldier.
(d) The cowboy.

2. The comment that “I have, in vain, attempted to…make her take part with Jennet; but as hopefully might you yoke a deer with an ox” (79) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Allonym.

3. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Conceit.

4. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?
(a) Depiction of Native Americans.
(b) Depiction of women.
(c) Depiction of Europeans.
(d) Depiction of Puritans.

5. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?
(a) Guy Lafleur.
(b) Guy Fieri.
(c) Guy Fawkes.
(d) Guy Lombardo.

6. Which of the following is described as “the apostle of New-England” (52)?
(a) Williams.
(b) Fletcher.
(c) Winthrop.
(d) Eliot.

7. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) March.
(d) June.

8. 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) Samoset.
(c) Nelema.
(d) Oneco.

9. How many Pequod were estimated by the settlers to have been killed in the Pequod War?
(a) 400.
(b) 500.
(c) 600.
(d) 700.

10. In the context of the novel, the term “congeniality” carries which of the following meanings (53)?
(a) Obedience and submission.
(b) Duty and diligence.
(c) Rebellion and misrule.
(d) Affection and love.

11. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
(a) 1639.
(b) 1637.
(c) 1638.
(d) 1636.

12. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?
(a) With additional force of law.
(b) In an excess of law.
(c) Against the law.
(d) Outside the law.

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

14. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Assonance.
(b) Rhyme.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Pentameter.

15. From which port does William purpose to leave for New England before he breaks ties with his uncle?
(a) Felixstowe.
(b) Liverpool.
(c) Southampton.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Sedgwick’s paternal family arrive in Massachusetts?

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

3. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?

4. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?

5. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?

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