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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume II, Chapters 9 through 15, and Back Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The comment that “Sir Philip and Everell were much on the terms of two unfriendly dogs, who are, by some coercion, kept from doing battle, but who never meet without low growls and sullen looks, that intimate their deadly enmity” (358) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Conceit.

3. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?
(a) Pentameter.
(b) Alliteration.
(c) Rhyme.
(d) Assonance.

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

5. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Analogy.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “propitious” carries which of the following meanings?

2. How many attempts at escape does Everell make as he is taken away from Bethel towards the Husatonick?

3. In what regard does the novel affirm Jennet holds Everell (359)?

4. About whom does Hope inquire first upon reaching Bethel (119)?

5. Which of the following is the birth-name of Hope Leslie?

(see the answer key)

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