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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 exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?
(a) John Winthrop.
(b) William Fletcher.
(c) Nelema.
(d) Mononotto.

2. In what year was Sedgwick first published?
(a) 1827.
(b) 1822.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1829.

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

4. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
(a) 1637.
(b) 1636.
(c) 1638.
(d) 1639.

5. Which of the following does Karcher note that Lucy Aikin critiques in the novel (36)?
(a) Depiction of Europeans.
(b) Depiction of women.
(c) Depiction of Puritans.
(d) Depiction of Native Americans.

Short Answer Questions

1. The comment that “A boy’s courage is a keen weapon that wants temper” (89) offers an example of which of the following?

2. “The only merit claimed by the present writer” in Sedgwick’s preface is which of the following (48)?

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

4. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?

5. In what year was Sedgwick born?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Karcher note as the fate of Sedgwick’s mother?

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

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

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