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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 comment that “the little girl received it from him as passively as the young bird takes food from its mother” (127) offers an example of which of the following?

2. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

3. Which of the following is the title of the 1790 essay by Murray that Karcher cites (20)?

4. 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?

5. About whom does Hope inquire first upon reaching Bethel (119)?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?

2. Explain the metaphor in Digby’s comment that “it’s a bad ware that needs a dark store” (104)

3. 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)?

4. 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?

5. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?

6. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?

7. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?

8. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?

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 does Sir William charge his nephew to do to be able to marry Alice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What significance accrues to Magawisca’s mother’s assertion that “we can die before our enemies without a groan” (101)? What in the text supports that significance? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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