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

2. How, per the novel, is Esther Downing related to Governor Winthrop (187)?
(a) Daughter of his sister’s husband.
(b) Daughter of his sister.
(c) Daughter of his wife’s sister.
(d) Daughter of his brother.

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

4. How many years pass between Magawisca’s maiming and Hope Leslie’s reported letter to Everell in England?
(a) 9.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 7.

5. What is the harshest name the novel remarks is applied to Winthrop by his contemporaries (198)?
(a) Sir James Tightfist.
(b) Sir Jason Crystallake.
(c) Sir Jacob Emptyhand.
(d) Sir John Temperwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hope Leslie’s comment that “‘It is a night,’ she continued, looking up at the bright moon, ‘to make one long to soar—so I will just spread my wings, and leave you to crawl on the earth’” (222) offers an example of which of the following?

2. With what figure is Nelema tattooed on her shoulder (156)?

3. With whom is Everett staying in England (161)?

4. Which of the following people returns Hope Leslie to the Winthrop household at the beginning of Volume II (227)?

5. With which of the following does Hope Leslie gift Antonio?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?

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

5. What reasons does the narrator give for the Fletchers’ retention of Jennet despite her disagreeable qualities (194)?

6. 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)?

7. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?

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

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

10. What are the “Indian riches” in the hut where Magawisca and Faith Leslie are confined after the retreat from Bethel (140)?

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