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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. How old is Esther Downing when she meets Everell?
(a) 16.
(b) 17.
(c) 18.
(d) 19.

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

3. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Analogy.

4. In the context of the novel, the term “congeniality” carries which of the following meanings (53)?
(a) Obedience and submission.
(b) Duty and diligence.
(c) Affection and love.
(d) Rebellion and misrule.

5. The comment that “they have fallen like our forest trees, before the stroke of the English axe” (84) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Analogy.
(b) Simile.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Conceit.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what figure is Nelema tattooed on her shoulder (156)?

2. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?

3. “The only merit claimed by the present writer” in Sedgwick’s preface is which of the following (48)?

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

5. Which of the following does Karcher remark was a major reason settlers gave for dispossessing Native Americans in what is now New England (30)?

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