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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume I, Chapters 1 through 6.

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) Conceit.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

2. How many, including Mononotto, attack Bethel?
(a) 5.
(b) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

4. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?
(a) Outside the law.
(b) In an excess of law.
(c) With additional force of law.
(d) Against the law.

5. In what year does William Fletcher emigrate to New England?
(a) 1630.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1610.
(d) 1640.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?

2. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

3. Which of the following is described as “the apostle of New-England” (52)?

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

5. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?

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