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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. Which of the following does Grafton note having given to her late husband as an early sign of her favor (275)?
2. Which of the following is in Hope Leslie’s painting?
3. Who is the second to come upon Hope Leslie after she flees Esther and Everell on Digby’s island (273)?
4. Hope Leslie’s comment that “if you do not fairly conduct me through its mazes, I shall make use of the clue you have dropped, and find my own way through the labyrinth” (185) offers an example of which of the following?
5. On which of the following streets does the house of government sit in Boston in the novel?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Pynchon reported to have deduced Hope Leslie’s involvement in Nelema’s escape?
2. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).
3. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?
4. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?
5. What does Gardiner posit as justification for Madam Winthrop inveighing against laughter (265)?
6. What reasons does William Fletcher give for sending Hope Leslie to Boston at the Winthrops’ request?
7. Why are Winthrop’s indigenous guests offended at the dinner when Everell and Gardiner arrive in Boston?
8. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?
9. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?
10. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sedgwick, in her own preface to the novel, notes that her intention “was to illustrate not the history, but the character of the times” (48). Which is more important for understanding? What in experience suggests that it is so, and how does it suggest it?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator makes the comment that “we would fix our eyes on the bright halo that encircled the pilgrims’ head; and not mark the dust that sometimes sullied his garments” (sic, 211). Does the novel as a whole endorse taking such a position? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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