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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?
(a) Mononotto.
(b) John Winthrop.
(c) William Fletcher.
(d) Nelema.

2. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1786.
(c) 1793.
(d) 1807.

3. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
(a) Amicable trade.
(b) Amorous marriage.
(c) Simple friendship.
(d) Peaceful coexistence.

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

5. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Songbirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?

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

4. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?

5. In what year was Hope Leslie published?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?

2. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?

3. What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response? What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response?

4. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust and intent of the seduction plot, which had been the focus of the American women novelists prior to Sedgwick (12)?

5. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?

6. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?

7. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?

8. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?

9. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?

10. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?

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