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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 is Magawisca doing when Hope Leslie first meets her in the graveyard?
2. How long does Magawisca note will lapse between her graveyard meeting with Hope Leslie and a meeting between Hope and Faith Leslie (243)?
3. How many days does it take Mononotto’s party to reach the Husatonick after raiding Bethel?
4. Which of the following characters is Winthrop’s jailer?
5. Hope Leslie’s comment that “‘It is a night,’ she continued, looking up at the bright moon, ‘to make one long to soar—so I will just spread my wings, and leave you to crawl on the earth’” (222) offers an example of which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gardiner posit as justification for Madam Winthrop inveighing against laughter (265)?
2. How is Pynchon reported to have deduced Hope Leslie’s involvement in Nelema’s escape?
3. What trees grow on the hill to which Mononotto takes Everell to be sacrificed?
4. What reasons does Gardiner give for Everell to mistrust his initial identification of Hope Leslie?
5. Whom does the narrator remark meet on equal footing in Sabbath services (213)?
6. Why are Winthrop’s indigenous guests offended at the dinner when Everell and Gardiner arrive in Boston?
7. What sounds reach Hope Leslie atop the mountain at Northampton (153)?
8. 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).
9. What reasons does Gardiner write for preferring Hope Leslie as a potential love interest?
10. What reasons does Gardiner write for rejecting Esther Downing as a potential love interest?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator makes the comment that “we would fix our eyes on the bright halo that encircled the pilgrims’ head; and not mark the dust that sometimes sullied his garments” (sic, 211). Does the novel as a whole endorse taking such a position? What in the text suggests whether it does or not? How does it do so?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
What significance accrues to Magawisca’s mother’s assertion that “we can die before our enemies without a groan” (101)? What in the text supports that significance? How does it do so?
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