View a FREE sample

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) 1827.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1830.

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

3. In what year, per Karcher (16), does Sedgwick convert to Unitarianism?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1821.

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

5. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
(a) Simple friendship.
(b) Peaceful coexistence.
(c) Amorous marriage.
(d) Amicable trade.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the birth-name of Hope Leslie?

2. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?

3. Which critic does Karcher cite as demonstrating ambiguities about the Puritans in Hope Leslie (29)?

4. In what year was Sedgwick born?

5. Whom does Everell injure at Bethel?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 165 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample