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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Front Matter.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?
(a) Hope Leslie.
(b) Esther Downing.
(c) Faith Leslie.
(d) Bertha Grafton.

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

3. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?
(a) 1786.
(b) 1793.
(c) 1807.
(d) 1800.

4. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?
(a) 1823.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1824.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?

2. In what year was Hope Leslie published?

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

4. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?

5. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?

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