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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. Which of the following refers to Sedgwick’s native social group?
2. In what year, per Karcher (19), does Sedgwick meet a descendant of Eunice Williams?
3. In what year was the Gunpowder Plot conducted?
4. Which of the following does Karcher report Sedgwick “develops with the most conviction” as a solution towards interracial tensions (26)?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)
2. In what way, per Karcher (27), do “‘Friendly’ whites like Hope and Everell” imperil native peoples?
3. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
4. What reasons does Magawisca report her father citing for refusing the pardon of the English after the Pequod War (100)?
5. 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?
6. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?
7. 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)?
8. Prior to the attack on Bethel, how does Digby note that Everell and Oneco ridicule Grafton (108)?
9. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?
10. What prank does Martha Fletcher note in her letter that Everell plays on Grafton?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the novel, the Puritans are described as seeking and loving liberty, often in negative terms. What understand of their liberty does the novel advance? What in the text indicates that understanding? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator remarks that “the rights of innocence were paramount to all other rights” (171). Does the novel as a whole agree with the assertion? What in the text shows the agreement or disagreements? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
Consider Magawisca’s plea in her trial regarding her imprisonment, beginning with “‘Then,’ said Magawisca” and ending with “death or liberty” (352-53); the passage advances the idea that death is preferable to imprisonment. Does the novel support the idea? How so or not?
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