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

2. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?
(a) 1617.
(b) 1611.
(c) 1599.
(d) 1605.

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

4. How old is Samoset when he dies?
(a) 15.
(b) 17.
(c) 16.
(d) 18.

5. To what sect does Karcher assert Bertha Grafton belongs?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Unitarian.
(d) Puritan.

Short Answer Questions

1. To which Biblical patriarch is Martha Fletcher compared as she accompanies William to the area of Springfield (61)?

2. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?

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

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

5. The comment that “I have, in vain, attempted to…make her take part with Jennet; but as hopefully might you yoke a deer with an ox” (79) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?

6. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?

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

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

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

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

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