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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. What is the name of the indigenous leader at the dinner during which Winthrop welcomes Everell and Gardiner to Boston?
2. How, per the novel, is Esther Downing related to Governor Winthrop (187)?
3. Which of the following is the vendor who calls upon the Winthrop household before Hope Leslie goes out at night (236)?
4. The word “rill” carries which of the following meanings?
5. With which of the following does Gardiner lodge in Boston (251)?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Magawisca disguise herself to meet with Hope Leslie in the graveyard?
2. What physical signs indicate Esther Downing’s upset after she and Hope Leslie return to the Winthrop residence after the reunion with Everell (186)?
3. 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?
4. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
5. What reasons does Digby’s wife give against Hope Leslie going out for a nighttime walk on the island?
6. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).
7. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?
8. What activities does the narrator remark typify a Puritan Saturday evening (212)?
9. Whom does the narrator remark meet on equal footing in Sabbath services (213)?
10. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Consider Magawisca’s question that “here is my mother’s grave; think ye not that the Great Spirit looks down on these sacred spots, where the good and peaceful rest, with an equal eye; think ye not their children are His children, whether they are gathered in yonder temple where your people worship, or bow to Him beneath the green boughs of the forest?” (243) Does the novel as a whole respond in the affirmative to the question, or in the negative? What in the text indicates the response? How does it do so?
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