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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hester fling next to the brook?
(a) Chillingworth's herbs.
(b) Her bonnet.
(c) Dimmesdale's Bible.
(d) Her scarlet letter.

2. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Witches.
(b) Clergy.
(c) Governors.
(d) Doctors.

3. While she is playing, Pearl makes a little boat out of what?
(a) Sea weed.
(b) Birch bark.
(c) Acorns.
(d) Sand dollars.

4. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) "The Minister in a Maze."
(b) "The Minister in the Mirror."
(c) "The Mysterious Minister."
(d) "The Minister in the Middle."

5. Whom does Dimmesdale call up to join him in front of everyone?
(a) Hester.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Hester and Pearl.
(d) Wilson.

6. What metal is the previously mentioned book and pen associated with?
(a) Gold.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Silver.
(d) Iron.

7. According to Hester in Chapter 16, where does she tell Pearl she got the scarlet letter?
(a) From Mistress Hibbins.
(b) From the Dark Reverend.
(c) From the Dark Man.
(d) From the Black Man.

8. What does Hester threaten to do at the end of Chapter 14?
(a) Kill herself.
(b) Betray Chillingworth's identity.
(c) Escape Boston.
(d) Reveal the name of her lover.

9. Who inherited money and property from Chillingworth?
(a) Pearl.
(b) His biological children.
(c) The church.
(d) Hester.

10. What facial expression of Chillingworth displays his true malice, which the narrator calls "his blackness" in Chapter 14?
(a) A smile.
(b) A wink.
(c) A shrug.
(d) A grimace.

11. Why will Pearl not come to Hester in Chapter 19?
(a) She is across the brook.
(b) She has taken off the letter.
(c) She is angry at her mother.
(d) She is talking with a man.

12. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?
(a) Less than one.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

13. Dimmesdale claims that his scarlet letter burns how?
(a) In secret.
(b) On the inside.
(c) In God's eyes.
(d) On his soul.

14. Why, according to Pearl, does sunshine "run away and hide itself" from Hester?
(a) Because of her long gray dress.
(b) Because of the scarlet letter.
(c) Because of the foliage.
(d) Because of her fair skin.

15. What does Hester mean when she says "Thou shalt not go alone" at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) That Chillingworth will follow Dimmesdale.
(b) That she will send Pearl with Dimmesdale.
(c) That she will run away with Dimmesdale.
(d) That Dimmesdale should not leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Its ranks were filled with gentlemen, who felt the stirrings of martial impulse" describes which group of men in the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22?

2. What is the title of Chapter 14?

3. What is the holiday referred to in the title of Chapter 21?

4. What does Dimmesdale tell Chillingworth while he is writing the sermon is Chapter 20?

5. Why do Hester and Dimmesdale chose the place they do to escape to?

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