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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 “‘It must be a dumb dog, indeed,’ replied the girl, ‘that cannot bark for such a kind mistress as thou art’” (190) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Grafton note having given to her late husband as an early sign of her favor (275)?

3. Which of the following ships does Craddock note brought supplies to Boston at a time of deprivation rehearsed at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?

4. Which of the following labels does Mononotto apply to Faith Leslie (249)?

5. How, per the novel, is Esther Downing related to Governor Winthrop (187)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reasons does the narrator give for the Fletchers’ retention of Jennet despite her disagreeable qualities (194)?

2. What reasons does Digby’s wife give against Hope Leslie going out for a nighttime walk on the island?

3. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?

4. What reasons does William Fletcher give for sending Hope Leslie to Boston at the Winthrops’ request?

5. Consider Grafton’s comment that “this unlucky prayer-book is gnawed to mince-meat by the mice, and not another book in the library touched. I longed to commend the instinct of the little beasts, that knew what good food was” (266). What is the irony in her comment?

6. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?

7. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?

8. Whom does the narrator remark meet on equal footing in Sabbath services (213)?

9. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).

10. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, the Puritans are described as seeking and loving liberty, often in negative terms. What understand of their liberty does the novel advance? What in the text indicates that understanding? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What significance accrues to Magawisca’s mother’s assertion that “we can die before our enemies without a groan” (101)? What in the text supports that significance? How does it do so?

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