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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 panther watching her young is as fearful as a doe” (96) offers an example of which of the following?
2. Which of the following does Karcher remark created the historical novel as a genre (19)?
3. In which year does William Fletcher leave Boston to settle in the area of Springfield?
4. About whom does Hope inquire first upon reaching Bethel (119)?
5. 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?
Short Essay Questions
1. With what do Everell and Digby entertain themselves while on watch against attack (92)?
2. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?
3. What does Karcher note as the fate of Sedgwick’s mother?
4. In what way, per Karcher (27), do “‘Friendly’ whites like Hope and Everell” imperil native peoples?
5. What reactions does William Fletcher’s reserved manners prompt from his companions aboard the Arabella, and why, per the narrator (60)?
6. What justification for revenge is accorded to Mononotto (106)?
7. Why does Mononotto note he is pleased to take Everell captive?
8. 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)?
9. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?
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
Sedgwick takes many words to describe the physical scenery of the natural world in her novel. What effect do the descriptions have on CURRENT readership? What in the text prompts that effect? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator makes the comment that “we would fix our eyes on the bright halo that encircled the pilgrims’ head; and not mark the dust that sometimes sullied his garments” (sic, 211). Does the novel as a whole endorse taking such a position? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
What is the significance of Karcher’s comment that “Sedgwick won not only the adulation of her female successors but the respect of her male peers[sic]” (10)? What in the text and in experience indicates that significance? How does it do so?
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