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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3- Chapter 5: Until Bedtime and Chapter 6: Coverdale's Sick Chamber.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Coverdale spend his first night at Blithedale?
(a) With Zenobia.
(b) In a fever with a cold.
(c) Sleepless.
(d) With Priscilla.

2. Before his departure for Blithedale in Chapter 1, where is Mr. Coverdale returning to his apartment from?
(a) A play in town.
(b) An exhibition of the Veiled Lady.
(c) Dinner at his parents'.
(d) The opera.

3. Why is Zenobia upset with Mr. Hollingsworth in Section 2, Chapter 3?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He ruins her dinner.
(c) He's late.
(d) He ignores her.

4. How does Mr. Coverdale think the firelight from the hearth makes the men and women of Blithedale appear?
(a) The men weak and the women strong.
(b) The men handsome and the women meek.
(c) The men strong and the women weak.
(d) The men youthful and the women beautiful.

5. After claiming that she is not positively ill-natured, why does Zenobia decide to be kind to Priscilla?
(a) Because she wants everyone to forgive her.
(b) Because she decides she really does like her.
(c) Because Coverdale and Hollingsworth seem so interested in the girl.
(d) Because she feels bad about her treatment of her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the atmosphere at the first dinner in the Blithedale farmhouse?

2. Mr. Hollingsworth finally arrives and Blithedale and brings a young girl, Priscilla; how does she react when she sees Zenobia?

3. How many men ride together to Blithedale during the storm in Section 1, Chapter 2?

4. What are Mrs. Foster and her husband in charge of at Blithedale?

5. The night that all the newcomers arrive at Blithedale, what does Zenobia tell them all she will act as?

(see the answer key)

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