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1. In what year was Sedgwick first published?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1824.

2. In what year was Hope Leslie published?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1829.

3. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) The Frugal Housewife.
(b) Hobomok.
(c) An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
(d) The Mothers Book.

4. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) Around Mull.
(b) El Furiedis.
(c) The Lamplighter.
(d) Mabel Vaughan.

5. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) William Cullen Bryant.

6. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?
(a) The Linwoods.
(b) Clarence.
(c) Redwood.
(d) Last of the Mohicans.

7. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The rebel soldier.
(b) The cowboy.
(c) The frontiersman.
(d) The SEAL.

8. In what year was Sedgwick born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1815.
(d) 1789.

9. Which of the following refers to Sedgwick’s native social group?
(a) The River Rats.
(b) The Lords of the Realm.
(c) The River Gods.
(d) The Boston Brahmins.

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