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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. In what year was Sedgwick born?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1789.
(d) 1815.

2. Which of the following is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?
(a) “On the Inequality of the Races.”
(b) “On the Inequality of the Sexes.”
(c) “On the Equality of the Sexes.”
(d) “On the Equality of the Races.”

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

4. How old is Hope Leslie when she is sent to Boston?
(a) 17.
(b) 16.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

5. The comment that “In short, she was the petted lamb of the fold” (174) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Allegory.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which of the following parts of England was William Fletcher born?

2. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?

3. Which of Maria Cummins’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?

4. How valuable an estate is Winthrop noted to have (197)?

5. In what month do the Fletchers accompany Holioke to Northampton?

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