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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 10- Chapter 19: Zenobia's Drawing-Room and Chapter 20: They Vanish.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After claiming that she is not positively ill-natured, why does Zenobia decide to be kind to Priscilla?
(a) Because she wants everyone to forgive her.
(b) Because she feels bad about her treatment of her.
(c) Because Coverdale and Hollingsworth seem so interested in the girl.
(d) Because she decides she really does like her.

2. Who comes to take Zenobia and Priscilla away from the boardinghouse at the end of Section 10, Chapter 20?
(a) Westervelt.
(b) Mr. Foster.
(c) Moodie.
(d) Hollingsworth.

3. As the summer passes at Blithedale, what do Coverdale and Hollingsworth discuss the community's plans to erect?
(a) A store.
(b) A church.
(c) A Phalanstery.
(d) A school.

4. After Coverdale is looked upon scornfully by one of the three people staying at the boardinghouse, who disappears from the window of the boudoir?
(a) Westervelt.
(b) Zenobia.
(c) Priscilla.
(d) Hollingsworth.

5. How does Mr. Coverdale think the firelight from the hearth makes the men and women of Blithedale appear?
(a) The men youthful and the women beautiful.
(b) The men handsome and the women meek.
(c) The men weak and the women strong.
(d) The men strong and the women weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Coverdale think that Priscilla deserves some poetry written about her?

2. Who does Zenobia throw a piece of gauze over at the end of her tale?

3. Who accosts Mr. Coverdale on his way back to his apartment in Section 1, Chapter 1?

4. How does Mr. Foster greet all the men while the women are preparing dinner the first night at Blithedale?

5. What does Mr. Coverdale claim that the parlor in the old farmhouse in Blithedale is comparable to?

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