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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 character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The frontiersman.
(b) The cowboy.
(c) The SEAL.
(d) The rebel soldier.

2. In which of the following parts of England was William Fletcher born?
(a) Yorkshire.
(b) Wessex.
(c) Suffolk.
(d) Kent.

3. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?
(a) Wequash.
(b) Suchmakin.
(c) Sassacus.
(d) Samoset.

4. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) The Frugal Housewife.
(b) An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
(c) Hobomok.
(d) The Mothers Book.

5. Which critic does Karcher cite as demonstrating ambiguities about the Puritans in Hope Leslie (29)?
(a) Horatio Carvey.
(b) Horatio Nelson.
(c) Dana Carvey.
(d) Dana Nelson.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?

2. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?

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

4. How old is Samoset when he dies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In what way, per Karcher (27), do “‘Friendly’ whites like Hope and Everell” imperil native peoples?

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

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

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

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