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

2. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Supposition.
(b) Apposition.
(c) Proposition.
(d) Opposition.

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

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

5. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?
(a) 1793.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1786.
(d) 1807.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Karcher’s commentary, the term “extralegal” (27) carries which of the following meanings?

3. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?

4. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?

5. Which of the following does Karcher cite as historical antecedent for Magawisca (24)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Sedgwick remark would be a gratifying result of reading her novel (49)?

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