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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 is “prerequisite to preventing racial strife” (21)?
(a) Recognition of two peoples’ mutual enemy.
(b) Recognition of two peoples’ distinct practices.
(c) Recognition of two peoples’ common humanity.
(d) Recognition of two peoples’ shared disdain.

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

3. Which of the following does Karcher exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?
(a) William Fletcher.
(b) John Winthrop.
(c) Nelema.
(d) Mononotto.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?

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

3. In what year was Sedgwick first published?

4. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?

5. “The only merit claimed by the present writer” in Sedgwick’s preface is which of the following (48)?

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