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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?
2. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
3. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
4. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?
5. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
2. 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)?
3. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?
4. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?
5. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?
6. In what way, per Karcher (27), do “‘Friendly’ whites like Hope and Everell” imperil native peoples?
7. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?
8. What prank does Martha Fletcher note in her letter that Everell plays on Grafton?
9. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Unitarianism to which Sedgwick converts (16)?
10. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Digby remarks that “It is one thing to know what danger is, and wish to shun it; and another thing to feel like you, fear-nought lads, that have never felt a twinge of pain, and have scarce a sense of your own mortality” (89). Does the novel agree or disagree with the assertion? What in the text indicates it? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the assessment that “a danger just escaped, is more fearful than one untried” (294). Is the assessment accurate? What in the text and/or in experience suggests whether it is or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Karcher remarks that one of Sedgwick’s characters in an earlier novel identifies Calvinist doctrine as promoting crimes, since neither good nor evil actions matter for salvation (16). Does Hope Leslie support that assertion? What in the text indicates that it does or not, and how does it indicate it?
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