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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 Indian Removal Act enacted?
(a) 1829.
(b) 1827.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1830.

2. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?
(a) Turkey tail feather.
(b) Owl wing feather.
(c) Eagle wing feather.
(d) Eagle tail feather.

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

4. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?
(a) Unitarians.
(b) Catholics.
(c) Puritans.
(d) Episcopalians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?

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

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

4. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?

5. 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?

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