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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 color bodice does Hope dress for dinner with the Winthrops, Everell, and Gardiner upon the evening of the arrival of the latter two (194)?
(a) Black.
(b) Blue.
(c) Green
(d) Pink.

2. Representatives of what tribe are present at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?
(a) Mohawk.
(b) Iroquois.
(c) Pequod.
(d) Narragansett.

3. The term “sumptuary” has which of the following meanings?
(a) Having to do with cotton.
(b) Having to do with clothing.
(c) Having to do with pumping.
(d) Having to do with food.

4. Which of the following was the name of Rosa’s canary (258)?
(a) Charmant.
(b) Mignonne.
(c) Coquet.
(d) Malin.

5. Who is the first to come upon Hope Leslie after she flees Esther and Everell on Digby’s island (271)?
(a) Everell.
(b) Esther.
(c) Digby.
(d) Gardiner.

Short Answer Questions

1. For which of the following does Antonio mistake Hope Leslie as she makes her escape from Oneco and others (298)?

2. What is the harshest name the novel remarks is applied to Winthrop by his contemporaries (198)?

3. Which of the following is named as a servant in the Wintrhop household (230)?

4. Which of the following characters accompanies Faith Leslie to her meeting with Hope?

5. Who is the second to come upon Hope Leslie after she flees Esther and Everell on Digby’s island (273)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What justification does the narrator give for the description of “a pilgrim mansion” (197) in the terms used in the novel?

2. What activities does the narrator remark typify a Puritan Saturday evening (212)?

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

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

5. What reasons does Digby’s wife give against Hope Leslie going out for a nighttime walk on the island?

6. 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?

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

8. What does Gardiner posit as justification for Madam Winthrop inveighing against laughter (265)?

9. Summarize Hope Leslie’s reaction to Esther Downing’s comment that “we owe implicit deference to our elders and superiors;—we ought to be guided by their advice, and governed by their authority” (235).

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

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