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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. With which of the following does Gardiner lodge in Boston (251)?
2. The identification of “a cause that certainly had no tendency to render the effect agreeable to him” (268) offers an example of which of the following?
3. Which of the following ships does Craddock note brought supplies to Boston at a time of deprivation rehearsed at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?
4. Hope Leslie’s musing that “I fancy their inquiries will turn out like the experiment of the inquisitive boy, who cut open the drum to find the sound” (151) offers an example of which of the following?
5. How high does the novel note the tallest of Boston’s hills stands?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardiner posit as justification for Madam Winthrop inveighing against laughter (265)?
2. What activities does the narrator remark typify a Puritan Saturday evening (212)?
3. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?
4. Consider Grafton’s comment that “this unlucky prayer-book is gnawed to mince-meat by the mice, and not another book in the library touched. I longed to commend the instinct of the little beasts, that knew what good food was” (266). What is the irony in her comment?
5. 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)?
6. How is Pynchon reported to have deduced Hope Leslie’s involvement in Nelema’s escape?
7. What justification does the narrator give for the description of “a pilgrim mansion” (197) in the terms used in the novel?
8. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?
9. How does Magawisca disguise herself to meet with Hope Leslie in the graveyard?
10. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
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
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?
Essay Topic 3
What significance accrues to Magawisca’s mother’s assertion that “we can die before our enemies without a groan” (101)? What in the text supports that significance? How does it do so?
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