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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the door to the jail made of?
(a) Mahogany.
(b) Oak.
(c) Maple.
(d) Birch.

2. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The schoolhouse.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) The governor's mansion.
(d) The church.

3. From which city is this preface written?
(a) Boston.
(b) New York.
(c) Salem.
(d) London.

4. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) Mother Theresa.
(c) The pope.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

5. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?
(a) Amusement.
(b) Detriment.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hawthorne describe the historic Salem of years ago?

2. Hawthorne utterly disclaims what kind of motives?

3. Who is named as Hester's pastor in Chapter 2?

4. What is the title of the first chapter?

5. How does the narrator describe the former queen of England, Elizabeth I?

(see the answer key)

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