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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. To what sect does Karcher assert Bertha Grafton belongs?
(a) Catholic.
(b) Puritan.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Episcopalian.
2. How many Pequod were estimated by the settlers to have been killed in the Pequod War?
(a) 500.
(b) 700.
(c) 600.
(d) 400.
3. To which Biblical patriarch is Martha Fletcher compared as she accompanies William to the area of Springfield (61)?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Jacob.
(c) Isaac.
(d) Ishmael.
4. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) The Lamplighter.
(b) Around Mull.
(c) Mabel Vaughan.
(d) El Furiedis.
5. How many, including Mononotto, attack Bethel?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
2. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?
3. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
4. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “its minstrels” (110)?
5. How many times does Digby attempt to refuse to accompany Grafton from Bethel to meet her baggage in Springfield?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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)?
2. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?
3. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)
4. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?
5. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
6. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?
7. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?
8. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Unitarianism to which Sedgwick converts (16)?
9. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?
10. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?
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