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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 the context of the novel, the term “congeniality” carries which of the following meanings (53)?
2. Which of Lydia Maria Child’s novels was inspired by Sedgwick, per Karcher (10)?
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. The phrase “Daughter of disloyalty and mother of all misrule” (52) offers examples of which of the following?
5. Which of Sedgwick’s writings was erroneously attributed to James Fenimore Cooper?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Karcher point out as a major contrast between Sedgwick’s depictions of indigenous / settler violence and her contemporaries’, such as Cooper (21)?
2. How is Bertha Grafton described at her first appearance in the novel (74)?
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. Which historical antecedent does Karcher identify for Faith Leslie?
5. What is the primary rhetorical appeal made in Karcher’s discussion of Sedgwick’s Redwood (17-18), and why is it the primary appeal?
6. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust of the Calvinist theology under which Sedgwick was raised (15)?
7. What does Sedgwick remark would be a gratifying result of reading her novel (49)?
8. What does Sir William charge his nephew to do to be able to marry Alice?
9. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?
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
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 Winthrop’s comment that “private feelings must yield to the public good” (290). Does the novel as a whole agree or disagree with the comment? What text supports that position? How does it support the position?
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