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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many years pass between Magawisca’s maiming and Hope Leslie’s reported letter to Everell in England?
(a) 1.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

3. Mononotto’s comment about Everell that, “Boy, as he is, he fought for his mother, as the eagle fights for its young” (144) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Simile.
(d) Conceit.

4. The identification of “a cause that certainly had no tendency to render the effect agreeable to him” (268) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Litotes.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Chiasmus.

5. What does the novel report as the reason Esther Downing’s father refuses to come to New England (260)?
(a) Inability to find good marriages for his daughters.
(b) Inability to find a good marriage for himself.
(c) Inability to find good marriages for his sons.
(d) Inability to find good bagels.

6. What does Gardiner describe as “the ruling passion of her sex,” of women (254)?
(a) Wrath.
(b) Lust.
(c) Gluttony.
(d) Vanity.

7. Where in England does Everell’s uncle Stretton live?
(a) Norfolk.
(b) Sussex.
(c) York.
(d) Suffolk.

8. What is the harshest name the novel remarks is applied to Winthrop by his contemporaries (198)?
(a) Sir Jacob Emptyhand.
(b) Sir James Tightfist.
(c) Sir John Temperwell.
(d) Sir Jason Crystallake.

9. Which of the following characters is Winthrop’s jailer?
(a) Digby.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Black.
(d) Barnaby.

10. With what figure is Nelema tattooed on her shoulder (156)?
(a) Eagle.
(b) Snake.
(c) Wolf.
(d) Deer.

11. Which of the following characters is NOT concerned about Hope Leslie at the beginning of Volume II (227)?
(a) Jennet.
(b) Gardiner.
(c) Cradock.
(d) Everell.

12. Which of the following is in Hope Leslie’s painting?
(a) A turkey.
(b) A deer.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A robin.

13. At approximately what time do Puritan Sabbath services end in the novel?
(a) Noon.
(b) 9 o’clock.
(c) 10 o’clock.
(d) 11 o’clock.

14. Which of the following characters accompanies Faith Leslie to her meeting with Hope?
(a) Oneco.
(b) Samoset.
(c) Everell.
(d) Sassacus.

15. With which of the following devices is Jennet summoned in the Winthrop household (233)?
(a) Silver whistle.
(b) Gilded chimes.
(c) Brass bell.
(d) Steel triangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many attempts at escape does Everell make as he is taken away from Bethel towards the Husatonick?

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

3. Which of the following figures does Gardiner call an “old friend and patron” (252)?

4. Hope Leslie’s musing that “I fancy their inquiries will turn out like the experiment of the inquisitive boy, who cut open the drum to find the sound” (151) offers an example of which of the following?

5. The word “sylvan” carries which of the following meanings?

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