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

2. What do Hollingsworth and Coverdale hoe together while the rest of the fraternity is situated in a distant corner of the farm?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Onions.
(c) Beets.
(d) Carrots.

3. What does Coverdale learn about Priscilla from Hollingsworth, in Section 4, Chapter 7?
(a) That she is terminally ill.
(b) That she has recently escaped peril and may still be liable to danger.
(c) That she is the long-lost sister of Zenobia.
(d) That she is secrelty engaged to Hollingsworth.

4. What does Priscilla do when Coverdale tells her that she is fortunate that she has nothing dismal to remember?
(a) She tells him she does have dismal things from her past.
(b) She seems to be listening to a distant voice.
(c) She smiles at him.
(d) She tells him he does not know her at all.

5. What does Zenobia praise Mr. Coverdale about at the beginning of Section 2, Chapter 3, as everyone arrives at Blithedale?
(a) His attire.
(b) His food.
(c) His music.
(d) His poetry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of flower does Zenobia wear in her hair?

2. Priscilla questions Hollingsworth about Zenobia's view of the injustice the world does to women; how does he respond?

3. After Coverdale tells Hollingsworth he does not know if he will ever be a philanthropist, how does Hollingsworth react?

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

5. In Zenobia's story about the Veiled Lady, who arises in the midst of a group of visionary people?

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