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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. How many, including Mononotto, attack Bethel?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

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

3. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of marriage between indigenous and settler populations (23)?
(a) Bertha Grafton.
(b) Faith Leslie.
(c) Esther Downing.
(d) Hope Leslie.

4. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
(a) An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans.
(b) Hobomok.
(c) The Frugal Housewife.
(d) The Mothers Book.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month does Mononotto attack Bethel?

2. The comment that “These letters contain tidings that have opened a long sealed fountain” (sic, 66) offers an example of which of the following?

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

4. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?

5. Which of the following does Karcher note is “prerequisite to preventing racial strife” (21)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Mononotto note he is pleased to take Everell captive?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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