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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. 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) Metaphor.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Allegory.

2. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?
(a) Depiction of Puritans.
(b) Depiction of Europeans.
(c) Depiction of women.
(d) Depiction of Native Americans.

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

4. 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) Allegory.
(c) Allonym.
(d) Anaphora.

5. In what year was Hope Leslie published?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1829.
(d) 1822.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year does William Fletcher emigrate to New England?

3. The comment that “These letters contain tidings that have opened a long sealed fountain” (sic, 66) offers an example of which of the following?

4. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?

5. Which of the following refers to Sedgwick’s native social group?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?

2. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?

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

4. What reasons does Magawisca report her father citing for refusing the pardon of the English after the Pequod War (100)?

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

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

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

8. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?

9. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)

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

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