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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. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?
(a) Guy Lombardo.
(b) Guy Fieri.
(c) Guy Lafleur.
(d) Guy Fawkes.

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

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

4. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Simile.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Allegory.

5. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?
(a) Nanye-hi.
(b) Sacagawea.
(c) Lozen.
(d) Pocahontas.

Short Answer Questions

1. The term “esculents” carries which of the following meanings (62)?

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

3. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?

4. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?

5. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?

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

4. What reasons does Magawisca report her father citing for refusing the pardon of the English after the Pequod War (100)?

5. 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?

6. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?

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

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

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

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

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