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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 character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?
(a) The cowboy.
(b) The SEAL.
(c) The frontiersman.
(d) The rebel soldier.

2. 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’ mutual enemy.
(d) Recognition of two peoples’ shared disdain.

3. To which Biblical patriarch is Martha Fletcher compared as she accompanies William to the area of Springfield (61)?
(a) Isaac.
(b) Ishmael.
(c) Jacob.
(d) Abraham.

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

5. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?
(a) March.
(b) April.
(c) June.
(d) May.

6. Whose scalp does the indigenous man who accompanies Digby to the Fletcher home carry (72)?
(a) Oneco.
(b) Mononotto.
(c) Samoset.
(d) Sassacus.

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

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

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

10. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?
(a) Documented history.
(b) Access to resources.
(c) Inborn morality.
(d) Genetic superiority.

11. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
(a) Simple friendship.
(b) Peaceful coexistence.
(c) Amicable trade.
(d) Amorous marriage.

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

13. 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 affections.
(b) Failure to cultivate the arts.
(c) Failure to cultivate literacy.
(d) Failure to cultivate the land.

14. In what year was Hope Leslie published?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1829.

15. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Allegory.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. Which of the following does Karcher exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?

5. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?

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