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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4- Chapter 7: The Convalescent and Chapter 8: A Modern Arcadia.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the community of Blithedale declare May Day as, in Section 4, Chapter 8?
(a) Blithedale Day.
(b) A movable holiday, which is postponed for better weather.
(c) Not to be celebrated at Blithedale.
(d) A second Christmas for those at Blithedale.

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

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

4. What does Zenobia have a lot of?
(a) Pride.
(b) Hats.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Weaknesses.

5. What does Zenobia claim Priscilla to be after Mr. Coverdale tells her his suspicions?
(a) A cook.
(b) A writer.
(c) A maid.
(d) A seamstress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Coverdale awake to outside his window after his first night at Blithedale?

2. In Section 3, Chapter 5, how does Mr. Foster say he will wake everyone at Blithedale at daybreak?

3. After claiming that she is not positively ill-natured, why does Zenobia decide to be kind to Priscilla?

4. What does Zenobia praise Mr. Coverdale about at the beginning of Section 2, Chapter 3, as everyone arrives at Blithedale?

5. What is Coverdale convinced that Hollingsworth will gain Zenobia and Priscilla as, in Section 4, Chapter 8?

(see the answer key)

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