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

2. To what city were the Pequod captives taken?
(a) Boston.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Springfield.
(d) Salem.

3. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1838.

4. Which of the following is the birth-name of Faith Leslie?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Martha.
(c) Melinda.
(d) Mary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Sedgwick first published?

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

3. Which of the following is the name of the mother of Magawisca?

4. Which of the following at Bethel are described as “the first civilized inhabitants of the country, of their tribe” (110)?

5. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. With what do Everell and Digby entertain themselves while on watch against attack (92)?

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

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

5. What prank does Martha Fletcher note in her letter that Everell plays on Grafton?

6. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?

7. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?

8. What does Karcher note as the fate of Sedgwick’s mother?

9. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust and intent of the seduction plot, which had been the focus of the American women novelists prior to Sedgwick (12)?

10. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?

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