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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume I, Chapters 7 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The comment that “These letters contain tidings that have opened a long sealed fountain” (sic, 66) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Conceit.

2. Mononotto’s comment about Everell that, “Boy, as he is, he fought for his mother, as the eagle fights for its young” (144) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

3. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?
(a) Cash crops.
(b) Mineral goods.
(c) Cash holdings.
(d) Food crops.

4. Representatives of what tribe are present at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?
(a) Pequod.
(b) Narragansett.
(c) Iroquois.
(d) Mohawk.

5. How valuable an estate is Winthrop noted to have (197)?
(a) 700 pounds monthly.
(b) 700 pounds total.
(c) 700 pounds weekly.
(d) 700 pounds annually.

Short Answer Questions

1. The word “rill” carries which of the following meanings?

2. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?

3. “The only merit claimed by the present writer” in Sedgwick’s preface is which of the following (48)?

4. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?

5. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?

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