Hope Leslie Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Catharine Maria Sedgwick
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 132 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Hope Leslie Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Catharine Maria Sedgwick
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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. In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law enacted?

2. Which of the following is the birth-name of Hope Leslie?

3. In the context of the novel, the term “congeniality” carries which of the following meanings (53)?

4. Which of the following is the name of the mother of Magawisca?

5. Which of the following character types does Karcher claim Cooper brought into American fiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sedgwick remark would be a gratifying result of reading her novel (49)?

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

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

4. What reasons does the novel note for William Fletcher to have “fixed his residence a mile from the village” (62)?

5. 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)?

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

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

8. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?

9. What does Karcher note as Sedgwick’s refocusing of “the emergent national literature” of her era (12)?

10. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Magawisca’s question that “here is my mother’s grave; think ye not that the Great Spirit looks down on these sacred spots, where the good and peaceful rest, with an equal eye; think ye not their children are His children, whether they are gathered in yonder temple where your people worship, or bow to Him beneath the green boughs of the forest?” (243) Does the novel as a whole respond in the affirmative to the question, or in the negative? What in the text indicates the response? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Digby remarks that “It is one thing to know what danger is, and wish to shun it; and another thing to feel like you, fear-nought lads, that have never felt a twinge of pain, and have scarce a sense of your own mortality” (89). Does the novel agree or disagree with 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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