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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. Which of the following does Grafton note having given to her late husband as an early sign of her favor (275)?
2. How old is Hope Leslie when she is sent to Boston?
3. Which of the following is noted as the “chief of the Mohegans” (249)?
4. Hope Leslie’s comment that “if you do not fairly conduct me through its mazes, I shall make use of the clue you have dropped, and find my own way through the labyrinth” (185) offers an example of which of the following?
5. In what month do the Fletchers accompany Holioke to Northampton?
Short Essay Questions
1. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?
2. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
3. What reasons does William Fletcher give for sending Hope Leslie to Boston at the Winthrops’ request?
4. What reasons does Everell give on Digby’s island for thinking that Hope Leslie is enamored of Gardiner?
5. What reasons does Gardiner note for betraying Magawisca as Hope Leslie meets with her and her own sister?
6. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?
7. 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)?
8. 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?
9. 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).
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
The narrator remarks that “we believe that the experience of every family, and individual, will attest the cluttering of joys or woes at marked periods” (362). Are the periods marked because of the clusters, or do the clusters occur due to the marking? What in the novel and in experience suggests as much, and how does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
Sedgwick takes many words to describe the physical scenery of the natural world in her novel. What effect do the descriptions have on CURRENT readership? What in the text prompts that effect? How is the effect achieved?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator remarks that “Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home” (sic, 63). Is the remark accurate? What in experience suggests that it is or is not, and how does it suggest it?
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