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

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

3. How long does it take William Fletcher to get to Boston from the area of Springfield to retrieve Hope and Faith Leslie?
(a) 7 days.
(b) 1 day.
(c) 9 days.
(d) 3 days.

4. Which of the following is the birth-name of Hope Leslie?
(a) Addison.
(b) Anna.
(c) Alice.
(d) Avery.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “its minstrels” (110)?

3. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?

4. 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?

5. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?

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 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?

7. Why does Mononotto note he is pleased to take Everell captive?

8. What does Sir William charge his nephew to do to be able to marry Alice?

9. What prank does Martha Fletcher note in her letter that Everell plays on Grafton?

10. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Unitarianism to which Sedgwick converts (16)?

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