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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 “There she met Hope Leslie—a bright gay spirit—an allegro to her penseroso” (192) offers an example of which of the following?
2. Which of the following questions does Gardiner address in his letter to Wilton (251)?
3. Which of the following is named as a servant in the Wintrhop household (230)?
4. How long does Hope Leslie lay in a comatose fever after her escape from Oneco and restoration to Boston?
5. Which of the following labels does Mononotto apply to Faith Leslie (249)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?
2. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?
3. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
4. How does Magawisca disguise herself to meet with Hope Leslie in the graveyard?
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. 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)?
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. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Would Hope Leslie be likely to achieve CRITICAL ACCLAIM in the literary market of today? That is, would literary critics and scholars be likely to approve of the book? What in the text suggests that it would / not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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