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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. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?
(a) 1617.
(b) 1605.
(c) 1599.
(d) 1611.

2. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?
(a) Depiction of Native Americans.
(b) Depiction of Europeans.
(c) Depiction of Puritans.
(d) Depiction of women.

3. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
(a) Sir Philip Sidney.
(b) Sir Winston Churchill.
(c) Sir Thomas Malory.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

4. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The SEAL.
(b) The frontiersman.
(c) The rebel soldier.
(d) The cowboy.

5. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) El Furiedis.
(b) The Lamplighter.
(c) Around Mull.
(d) Mabel Vaughan.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?

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

5. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “its minstrels” (110)?

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