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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. Who is the second to come upon Hope Leslie after she flees Esther and Everell on Digby’s island (273)?
2. How old is Esther Downing when she meets Everell?
3. 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?
4. Which of the following labels does Mononotto apply to Faith Leslie (249)?
5. Magawisca’s comment that “I cannot send back the bird that has mated to its parent nest” (241) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?
2. What reasons does William Fletcher give for sending Hope Leslie to Boston at the Winthrops’ request?
3. 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)?
4. What reasons does the narrator give for the Fletchers’ retention of Jennet despite her disagreeable qualities (194)?
5. 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).
6. Explicate the comment from Magawisca that her people “never turned their backs on friends or enemies” (241).
7. What activities does the narrator remark typify a Puritan Saturday evening (212)?
8. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?
9. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?
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
Karcher notes that “The main imperative of Sedgwick’s era was to create a national literature that differentiated itself from British and European precedents by capitalizing on what made America unique: its landscape, history, folk heroes, regional idiosyncracies [sic], potpourri of races and ethnic groups, and democratic social structure” (12). Does the novel successfully contribute to that imperative? What in the text indicates whether it does or not, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Consider the assessment that “a danger just escaped, is more fearful than one untried” (294). Is the assessment accurate? What in the text and/or in experience suggests whether it is or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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