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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. The comment that “the little girl received it from him as passively as the young bird takes food from its mother” (127) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

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

3. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
(a) 1636.
(b) 1639.
(c) 1638.
(d) 1637.

4. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) William Cullen Bryant.

5. With which of the following does Karcher compare Hope Leslie (32)?
(a) Poe’s Montresor.
(b) Irving’s Van Winkle.
(c) Cooper’s Hawkeye.
(d) Hawthorne’s Prynne.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?

2. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?

3. How many Pequod were estimated by the settlers to have been killed in the Pequod War?

4. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?

5. In what year was Sedgwick first published?

(see the answer key)

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