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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 is the vendor selling who calls upon the Winthrop household before Hope Leslie goes out at night (236)?
2. How, per the novel, is Esther Downing related to Governor Winthrop (187)?
3. Which of the following was the name of Rosa’s canary (258)?
4. The term “propitious” carries which of the following meanings?
5. Which of the following food-sources is noted as “more noble” among the Husatonick (138)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?
2. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?
3. What is Hope Leslie’s reaction to her own placing Esther Downing’s hand into Everell’s and commending them to one another on Digby’s island (270-71)?
4. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?
5. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?
6. Whom does the narrator remark meet on equal footing in Sabbath services (213)?
7. How is Pynchon reported to have deduced Hope Leslie’s involvement in Nelema’s escape?
8. Why are Winthrop’s indigenous guests offended at the dinner when Everell and Gardiner arrive in Boston?
9. Summarize Hope Leslie’s reaction to Esther Downing’s comment that “we owe implicit deference to our elders and superiors;—we ought to be guided by their advice, and governed by their authority” (235).
10. What reasons does William Fletcher give for sending Hope Leslie to Boston at the Winthrops’ request?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
The narrator remarks that “we believe that the experience of every family, and individual, will attest the cluttering of joys or woes at marked periods” (362). Are the periods marked because of the clusters, or do the clusters occur due to the marking? What in the novel and in experience suggests as much, and how does it do so?
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