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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?
(a) 1800.
(b) 1807.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1793.

2. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “its minstrels” (110)?
(a) Eagles.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Vultures.
(d) Songbirds.

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

4. From which port does William purpose to leave for New England before he breaks ties with his uncle?
(a) Liverpool.
(b) London.
(c) Felixstowe.
(d) Southampton.

5. To what sect does Karcher assert Bertha Grafton belongs?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Unitarian.
(c) Puritan.
(d) Catholic.

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

7. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
(a) Sir Winston Churchill.
(b) Sir Thomas Malory.
(c) Sir Philip Sidney.
(d) Sir Walter Scott.

8. Which critic does Karcher cite as demonstrating ambiguities about the Puritans in Hope Leslie (29)?
(a) Horatio Nelson.
(b) Dana Carvey.
(c) Dana Nelson.
(d) Horatio Carvey.

9. What name is given to William Fletcher’s estate outside Springfield?
(a) Bethel.
(b) Bethlehem.
(c) Bath.
(d) Boston.

10. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1821.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1823.

11. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?
(a) Charles.
(b) Harry.
(c) Theodore.
(d) Robert.

12. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?
(a) Samoset.
(b) Suchmakin.
(c) Wequash.
(d) Sassacus.

13. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?
(a) Hope Leslie.
(b) Bertha Grafton.
(c) Faith Leslie.
(d) Esther Downing.

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

15. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?
(a) Chickens.
(b) Vultures.
(c) Songbirds.
(d) Eagles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Sedgwick first published?

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

3. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?

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

5. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?

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