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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. Which of the following does Karcher remark was a major reason settlers gave for dispossessing Native Americans in what is now New England (30)?
(a) Failure to cultivate affections.
(b) Failure to cultivate the land.
(c) Failure to cultivate the arts.
(d) Failure to cultivate literacy.

2. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1838.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1830.

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

4. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?
(a) 1617.
(b) 1599.
(c) 1605.
(d) 1611.

5. In what year, per Karcher (16), does Sedgwick convert to Unitarianism?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1824.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?

2. The comment that “These letters contain tidings that have opened a long sealed fountain” (sic, 66) offers an example of which of the following?

3. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?

4. In what year was Hope Leslie published?

5. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?

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