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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. 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’ mutual enemy.
(c) Recognition of two peoples’ shared disdain.
(d) Recognition of two peoples’ distinct practices.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?

2. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?

3. Which of the following is the birth-name of Hope Leslie?

4. What name is given to William Fletcher’s estate outside Springfield?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response? What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response?

2. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Unitarianism to which Sedgwick converts (16)?

3. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?

4. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?

5. In what way, per Karcher (27), do “‘Friendly’ whites like Hope and Everell” imperil native peoples?

6. What does Sir William charge his nephew to do to be able to marry Alice?

7. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)

8. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?

9. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?

10. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?

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