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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's past.
(b) Hester's love life.
(c) Hester's work.
(d) Hester's guilt.

2. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) A River of Tears.
(b) An Ectasy of Light.
(c) A Flood of Sunshine.
(d) A Flood of Brightness.

3. Hester's work is seen everywhere with the exception of:
(a) At weddings.
(b) In church.
(c) At funerals.
(d) On babies.

4. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?
(a) "Sturdier texture."
(b) "Populist ire."
(c) "Sanctimonius reputation."
(d) "Brillant popularity."

5. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?
(a) "The malice in Chillingworth's eyes."
(b) "The mercy of almightly Heaven."
(c) "The anguish in his inmost soul."
(d) "The joy in his beating heart."

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, which of the following has NOT been one of Hester's "teachers"?

2. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"

3. When Dimmesdale exclaims, "O Thou to whom I dare not life mine eyes," whom is he addressing?

4. Why does Hester stay in New England?

5. Where are Dimmesdale's parents?

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