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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. From which port does William purpose to leave for New England before he breaks ties with his uncle?
2. The comment that “Such men, inexperienced in the business of life, are like children” (60) offers an example of which of the following?
3. The comment that “I have, in vain, attempted to…make her take part with Jennet; but as hopefully might you yoke a deer with an ox” (79) offers an example of which of the following?
4. Which of the following does Karcher note that Charles Sismondi critiques in the novel (35)?
5. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?
2. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?
3. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)
4. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?
5. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?
6. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust and intent of the seduction plot, which had been the focus of the American women novelists prior to Sedgwick (12)?
7. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?
8. With what do Everell and Digby entertain themselves while on watch against attack (92)?
9. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
10. What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response? What command does Sir William give his brother, and what is that brother’s response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator makes the comment that “we would fix our eyes on the bright halo that encircled the pilgrims’ head; and not mark the dust that sometimes sullied his garments” (sic, 211). Does the novel as a whole endorse taking such a position? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Early in the novel, the comment is made that “Liberty….from the hour that she tempted our first parents to forfeit paradise, hath ever worked mischief to our race” (52). Does the novel affirm or deny the assertion? What in the text indicates it? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider the assessment that “a danger just escaped, is more fearful than one untried” (294). Is the assessment accurate? What in the text and/or in experience suggests whether it is or not? How does it do so?
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