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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. With which of the following devices is Jennet summoned in the Winthrop household (233)?
2. Where in England does Everell’s uncle Stretton live?
3. Which of the following figures does Gardiner call an “old friend and patron” (252)?
4. With which of the following does Gardiner lodge in Boston (251)?
5. Which of the following labels does Mononotto apply to Faith Leslie (249)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?
2. 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?
3. Why are Winthrop’s indigenous guests offended at the dinner when Everell and Gardiner arrive in Boston?
4. What are the “Indian riches” in the hut where Magawisca and Faith Leslie are confined after the retreat from Bethel (140)?
5. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
6. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?
7. What reasons does Digby’s wife give against Hope Leslie going out for a nighttime walk on the island?
8. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?
9. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).
10. What reasons does the narrator give for the Fletchers’ retention of Jennet despite her disagreeable qualities (194)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Consider Magawisca’s plea in her trial regarding her imprisonment, beginning with “‘Then,’ said Magawisca” and ending with “death or liberty” (352-53); the passage advances the idea that death is preferable to imprisonment. Does the novel support the idea? How so or not?
Essay Topic 3
Sedgwick takes many words to describe the physical scenery of the natural world in her novel. What effect do the descriptions have on CURRENT readership? What in the text prompts that effect? How is the effect achieved?
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