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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. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?
(a) 1822.
(b) 1823.
(c) 1824.
(d) 1821.
2. How many Pequod were estimated by the settlers to have been killed in the Pequod War?
(a) 700.
(b) 500.
(c) 400.
(d) 600.
3. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
(a) Amorous marriage.
(b) Peaceful coexistence.
(c) Amicable trade.
(d) Simple friendship.
4. In what year does the United States government sign a treaty to “civilize” indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi River?
(a) 1802.
(b) 1830.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1838.
5. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
(a) 1637.
(b) 1636.
(c) 1638.
(d) 1639.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?
2. Which of the following does Karcher exempt from her discussion of family lost in massacre (21)?
3. The comment that “he could not bear to be thus driven, like a fox to his hole” (100) offers an example of which of the following?
4. Which of the following serves as Mononotto’s crest?
5. How many men does Pynchon assign to follow Digby in pursuit of the attackers of Bethel (118)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)
2. What does Karcher note as the fate of Sedgwick’s mother?
3. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?
4. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?
5. What does Sir William charge his nephew to do to be able to marry Alice?
6. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?
7. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?
8. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
9. With what do Everell and Digby entertain themselves while on watch against attack (92)?
10. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?
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