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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 is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?
(a) “On the Inequality of the Races.”
(b) “On the Equality of the Sexes.”
(c) “On the Equality of the Races.”
(d) “On the Inequality of the Sexes.”

2. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?
(a) Lozen.
(b) Nanye-hi.
(c) Pocahontas.
(d) Sacagawea.

3. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?
(a) Cash holdings.
(b) Food crops.
(c) Mineral goods.
(d) Cash crops.

4. 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) Allegory.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Simile.
(d) Metaphor.

5. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1830.
(d) 1827.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?

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

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

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

5. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?

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