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

2. What does the novel note was the indigenous name of what became the Boston area (181)?
(a) Scituate.
(b) Snipatuit.
(c) Siasconset.
(d) Shawmut.

3. Hope Leslie’s comment that “if you do not fairly conduct me through its mazes, I shall make use of the clue you have dropped, and find my own way through the labyrinth” (185) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Simile.

4. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?
(a) The Linwoods.
(b) Last of the Mohicans.
(c) Redwood.
(d) Clarence.

5. The term “sumptuary” has which of the following meanings?
(a) Having to do with food.
(b) Having to do with clothing.
(c) Having to do with cotton.
(d) Having to do with pumping.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?

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

4. The word “rill” carries which of the following meanings?

5. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?

(see the answer key)

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