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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. How many addenda accompany Grafton’s letter to Everell (169)?

2. In what month do the Fletchers accompany Holioke to Northampton?

3. The word “sylvan” carries which of the following meanings?

4. How long had Everell been abroad when Hope Leslie writes the reported letter to him in England?

5. Which of the following is noted as the “chief of the Mohegans” (249)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?

2. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?

3. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?

4. Whom does the narrator remark meet on equal footing in Sabbath services (213)?

5. What reasons does the narrator give for the Fletchers’ retention of Jennet despite her disagreeable qualities (194)?

6. How does Magawisca disguise herself to meet with Hope Leslie in the graveyard?

7. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?

8. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?

9. 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?

10. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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