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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?
(a) Puritans.
(b) Episcopalians.
(c) Catholics.
(d) Unitarians.

2. In what year did Sedgwick’s paternal family arrive in Massachusetts?
(a) 1665.
(b) 1620.
(c) 1650.
(d) 1635.

3. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?
(a) 1599.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1617.
(d) 1605.

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

5. Which of the following refers to Sedgwick’s native social group?
(a) The Boston Brahmins.
(b) The River Gods.
(c) The River Rats.
(d) The Lords of the Realm.

6. 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.

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

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

9. Which of the following does Karcher remark was a major reason settlers gave for dispossessing Native Americans in what is now New England (30)?
(a) Failure to cultivate the land.
(b) Failure to cultivate affections.
(c) Failure to cultivate the arts.
(d) Failure to cultivate literacy.

10. Which author does Karcher quote as calling Sedgwick “our most truthful novelist” (10)?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) William Cullen Bryant.
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

11. The comment that “the little girl received it from him as passively as the young bird takes food from its mother” (127) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Allegory.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

12. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?
(a) Depiction of women.
(b) Depiction of Native Americans.
(c) Depiction of Puritans.
(d) Depiction of Europeans.

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

14. About whom does Hope inquire first upon reaching Bethel (119)?
(a) Everell.
(b) Jennet.
(c) Martha.
(d) Faith.

15. Which of the following does Karcher note is “prerequisite to preventing racial strife” (21)?
(a) Recognition of two peoples’ common humanity.
(b) Recognition of two peoples’ distinct practices.
(c) Recognition of two peoples’ shared disdain.
(d) Recognition of two peoples’ mutual enemy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the context of the novel, the term “congeniality” carries which of the following meanings (53)?

2. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?

3. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

4. How many times does Digby attempt to refuse to accompany Grafton from Bethel to meet her baggage in Springfield?

5. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?

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