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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Volume I, Chapters 7 through 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In what year was Sedgwick first published?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1829.
(c) 1822.
(d) 1827.

4. 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 women.
(d) Depiction of Puritans.

5. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men does Pynchon assign to follow Digby in pursuit of the attackers of Bethel (118)?

2. What is the harshest name the novel remarks is applied to Winthrop by his contemporaries (198)?

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

4. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?

5. What does the novel note was the indigenous name of what became the Boston area (181)?

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