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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 9- Chapter 17: The Hotel and Chapter 18: The Boarding-House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zenobia offers to invent a wild legend one day; how does everyone at Blithedale respond?
(a) Complacently.
(b) Eagerly.
(c) Scared.
(d) Angrily.

2. How is the atmosphere at the first dinner in the Blithedale farmhouse?
(a) Dull.
(b) Oppressive.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Exciting.

3. What does Coverdale find Zenobia and Priscilla doing in the barn, in Section 4, Chapter 8?
(a) Feeding the horses.
(b) Lauging and celebrating the holiday together.
(c) Reading and discussing their books.
(d) Arguing.

4. Why does Coverdale believe the neighbors of Blithedale slander their farming abilities?
(a) Because they are mean.
(b) Because they want to destroy them.
(c) Because of their envy and malice.
(d) Because they are scared of them.

5. In Zenobia's story about the Veiled Lady, what does the Lady tell the young man who sneaks into her room will happen to him if he kisses her?
(a) He will help to free her from the spell.
(b) He will condem himelf to death.
(c) He will never be able to forget her.
(d) He will be pledged to her, and from that instant she is doomed to be his evil fate.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Section 5, Chapter 9, what does Coverdale realize it's not mentally healthy to do?

2. Out of the three people that Coverdale spies from his hotel window at the boardinghouse, which two seem to repel one another?

3. What does Coverdale learn about Priscilla from Hollingsworth, in Section 4, Chapter 7?

4. Coverdale and Zenobia argue about women being happy in life; what does Zenobia say is the reason of woman's unhappiness?

5. After Coverdale is looked upon scornfully by one of the three people staying at the boardinghouse, who disappears from the window of the boudoir?

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