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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 does the novel report as the reason Esther Downing’s father refuses to come to New England (260)?

2. How old is Hope Leslie when she is sent to Boston?

3. In what color bodice does Hope dress for dinner with the Winthrops, Everell, and Gardiner upon the evening of the arrival of the latter two (194)?

4. Which of the following is in Hope Leslie’s painting?

5. Which of the following labels does Mononotto apply to Faith Leslie (249)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is Pynchon reported to have deduced Hope Leslie’s involvement in Nelema’s escape?

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

6. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?

7. What are the “Indian riches” in the hut where Magawisca and Faith Leslie are confined after the retreat from Bethel (140)?

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

9. Why, per the novel, is the Winthrop household put into disarray by Hope Leslie’s absence at the beginning of Volume II?

10. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).

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

The novel depicts Winthrop as commenting on “that passiveness, that, next to godliness, is a woman’s best virtue” (208). Does the novel support or reject the assertion that such passiveness is a virtue for women? What in the text confirms the support or rejection? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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