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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 characters is Winthrop’s jailer?
(a) Barnaby.
(b) Cotton.
(c) Digby.
(d) Black.

2. How many addenda accompany Grafton’s letter to Everell (169)?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. What does the novel report as the reason Esther Downing’s father refuses to come to New England (260)?
(a) Inability to find good marriages for his daughters.
(b) Inability to find good bagels.
(c) Inability to find a good marriage for himself.
(d) Inability to find good marriages for his sons.

4. The comment that “There she met Hope Leslie—a bright gay spirit—an allegro to her penseroso” (192) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Allegory.
(b) Conceit.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Simile.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How valuable an estate is Winthrop noted to have (197)?

3. At approximately what time do Puritan Sabbath services end in the novel?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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)?

3. 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?

4. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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