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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. Whose scalp does the indigenous man who accompanies Digby to the Fletcher home carry (72)?
(a) Sassacus.
(b) Samoset.
(c) Oneco.
(d) Mononotto.

2. In what year did Sedgwick’s paternal family arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1620.
(b) 1635.
(c) 1665.
(d) 1650.

3. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?
(a) Springfield.
(b) Salem.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) Boston.

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

5. 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) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?

2. Which of the following is the birth-name of Faith Leslie?

3. How many, including Mononotto, attack Bethel?

4. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?

5. To which Biblical patriarch is Martha Fletcher compared as she accompanies William to the area of Springfield (61)?

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