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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 is noted as the “chief of the Mohegans” (249)?
(a) Miantunnomoh.
(b) Uncas.
(c) Mononotto.
(d) Uriah.

2. At approximately what time do Puritan Sabbath services end in the novel?
(a) 10 o’clock.
(b) 11 o’clock.
(c) 9 o’clock.
(d) Noon.

3. Which of the following is the vendor who calls upon the Winthrop household before Hope Leslie goes out at night (236)?
(a) Monaca.
(b) Sacagawea.
(c) Nelema.
(d) Magawisca.

4. Which of the following roles does Digby serve for Governor Wintrhop?
(a) Gamekeeper.
(b) Constable.
(c) Jailer.
(d) Gardener.

5. The word “sylvan” carries which of the following meanings?
(a) Rocky.
(b) Swampy.
(c) Barren.
(d) Wooded.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Hope Leslie when she is sent to Boston?

2. How many attempts at escape does Everell make as he is taken away from Bethel towards the Husatonick?

3. With which of the following does Gardiner lodge in Boston (251)?

4. Which of the following is in Hope Leslie’s painting?

5. Mononotto’s comment about Everell that, “Boy, as he is, he fought for his mother, as the eagle fights for its young” (144) offers an example of which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Magawisca disguise herself to meet with Hope Leslie in the graveyard?

2. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?

3. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?

4. Why are Winthrop’s indigenous guests offended at the dinner when Everell and Gardiner arrive in Boston?

5. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?

6. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).

7. Consider Grafton’s comment that “this unlucky prayer-book is gnawed to mince-meat by the mice, and not another book in the library touched. I longed to commend the instinct of the little beasts, that knew what good food was” (266). What is the irony in her comment?

8. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?

9. What is Hope Leslie’s reaction to her own placing Esther Downing’s hand into Everell’s and commending them to one another on Digby’s island (270-71)?

10. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?

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