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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Meeting.
(b) The Recognizance.
(c) The Recognition.
(d) The Resistance.

2. What street runs outside the Custom-House?
(a) High Street.
(b) Salem Road.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Derby Street.

3. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Approximately 15 or 20.
(b) Approximately 50 or 60.
(c) Approximately 150 or more.
(d) Approximately 90 or 100.

4. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) TheJail-Door.
(b) The Prison Rose.
(c) The Prison-Door.
(d) Gaol-Door Rock.

5. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?
(a) The name of the witch.
(b) The name of her lover.
(c) The name of her husband.
(d) The name of her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?

2. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?

3. Which minister in the book has "a border of grizzled locks beneath his skull-cap" and gray eyes?

4. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?

5. What is one of Chillingworth's distinguishing physical features?

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