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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. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?
2. Which of the following does Karcher note typifies Sedgwick’s notion of “peaceful coexistence and mutually beneficial exchanges of goods and services” (22) between indigenous and settler populations?
3. The comment that “the panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?
4. Which of the following does Karcher assert does “not belong in a regenerated nation,” as envisioned by Sedgwick(31)?
5. With which of the following does Karcher assert Rosa is associated (31)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sedgwick remark would be a gratifying result of reading her novel (49)?
2. What prank does Martha Fletcher note in her letter that Everell plays on Grafton?
3. 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?
4. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?
5. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?
6. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?
7. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?
8. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?
9. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?
10. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sedgwick, in her own preface to the novel, notes that her intention “was to illustrate not the history, but the character of the times” (48). Which is more important for understanding? What in experience suggests that it is so, and how does it suggest it?
Essay Topic 2
Would Hope Leslie be likely to achieve BESTSELLER STATUS in the literary market of today? That is, would people in the United States be likely to buy it in large numbers? What in the text suggests that it would / not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator remarks that “Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home” (sic, 63). Is the remark accurate? What in experience suggests that it is or is not, and how does it suggest it?
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