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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. With which of the following does Karcher compare Hope Leslie (32)?
2. To what does Sedgwick ascribe “the difference of character among the various races of the earth” in her preface (49)?
3. Who guides the English attack against the Pequod village, according to Magawisca (96)?
4. In what year was the Indian Removal Act enacted?
5. Which of Sedgwick’s brothers first encouraged her to write, per Karcher?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?
2. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?
3. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?
4. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?
5. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
6. With what do Everell and Digby entertain themselves while on watch against attack (92)?
7. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?
8. 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?
9. 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)?
10. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Karcher remarks that one of Sedgwick’s characters in an earlier novel identifies Calvinist doctrine as promoting crimes, since neither good nor evil actions matter for salvation (16). Does Hope Leslie support that assertion? What in the text indicates that it does or not, and how does it indicate it?
Essay Topic 3
Karcher notes that “The main imperative of Sedgwick’s era was to create a national literature that differentiated itself from British and European precedents by capitalizing on what made America unique: its landscape, history, folk heroes, regional idiosyncracies [sic], potpourri of races and ethnic groups, and democratic social structure” (12). Does the novel successfully contribute to that imperative? What in the text indicates whether it does or not, and how does it do so?
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