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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 does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
(a) Sir Walter Scott.
(b) Sir Winston Churchill.
(c) Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) Sir Thomas Malory.

2. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?
(a) Turkey tail feather.
(b) Eagle tail feather.
(c) Eagle wing feather.
(d) Owl wing feather.

3. Which of the following is the birth-name of Faith Leslie?
(a) Martha.
(b) Mary.
(c) Melinda.
(d) Margaret.

4. 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) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

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) Samoset.
(b) Nelema.
(c) Oneco.
(d) Magawisca.

6. Which of the following does Karcher remark was a major reason settlers gave for dispossessing Native Americans in what is now New England (30)?
(a) Failure to cultivate literacy.
(b) Failure to cultivate affections.
(c) Failure to cultivate the land.
(d) Failure to cultivate the arts.

7. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1824.

8. What name is given to William Fletcher’s estate outside Springfield?
(a) Bath.
(b) Bethel.
(c) Bethlehem.
(d) Boston.

9. In what year was Sedgwick born?
(a) 1815.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1789.

10. In what year, per Karcher (16), does Sedgwick convert to Unitarianism?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1823.

11. How old is Samoset when he dies?
(a) 15.
(b) 16.
(c) 17.
(d) 18.

12. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?
(a) Redwood.
(b) Last of the Mohicans.
(c) Clarence.
(d) The Linwoods.

13. Which of the following does Karcher note is “prerequisite to preventing racial strife” (21)?
(a) Recognition of two peoples’ distinct practices.
(b) Recognition of two peoples’ mutual enemy.
(c) Recognition of two peoples’ common humanity.
(d) Recognition of two peoples’ shared disdain.

14. Whose scalp does the indigenous man who accompanies Digby to the Fletcher home carry (72)?
(a) Mononotto.
(b) Sassacus.
(c) Samoset.
(d) Oneco.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

2. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?

3. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?

4. How many, including Mononotto, attack Bethel?

5. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?

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