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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. 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 the land.
(c) Failure to cultivate affections.
(d) Failure to cultivate the arts.

3. 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 Puritans.
(d) Depiction of Europeans.

4. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Episcopalians.
(d) Puritans.

5. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) Around Mull.
(b) The Lamplighter.
(c) Mabel Vaughan.
(d) El Furiedis.

6. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?
(a) Bertha Grafton.
(b) Esther Downing.
(c) Faith Leslie.
(d) Hope Leslie.

7. In what year does William Fletcher emigrate to New England?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1640.
(c) 1630.
(d) 1610.

8. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “its minstrels” (110)?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Songbirds.
(d) Eagles.

9. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

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

11. In what year was Sedgwick first published?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1824.

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

13. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?
(a) Lozen.
(b) Nanye-hi.
(c) Sacagawea.
(d) Pocahontas.

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

15. The comment that “the little girl received it from him as passively as the young bird takes food from its mother” (127) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?

2. How old is Samoset when he dies?

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

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

5. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?

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