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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Moodie tells Coverdale how twenty-five years earlier he had a palatial home, a lovely wife and a beautiful daughter, but what was the only thing he was interested in?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Gambling.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Drugs.

2. Who comes to take Zenobia and Priscilla away from the boardinghouse at the end of Section 10, Chapter 20?
(a) Moodie.
(b) Westervelt.
(c) Hollingsworth.
(d) Mr. Foster.

3. What does Hollingsworth seem to have no regret for overthrowing in Section 8, Chapter 15?
(a) Overthrowing the fair system of their new life because it does not suit him.
(b) His love of Priscilla for Zenobia.
(c) His love of Zenobia for Priscilla.
(d) His own family.

4. In Section 9, Chapter 17, Coverdale obtains a room in a respectable hotel in town; what makes him feel stifled at first?
(a) The muddy tide of human activity.
(b) The memories from Blithedale.
(c) The loud music coming from across the street.
(d) The silence in his empty room.

5. After Priscilla is summoned to see Coverdale, he asks her when she will return to Blithedale; how does she respond?
(a) She says she never wants to return.
(b) She says when Hollingsworth says she can return.
(c) She says whenever they will take her because she never has had any free will.
(d) She says at the end of the year.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Coverdale comes upon the three people at the pulpit in Section 13, Chapter 25, who tells him that she is on trial for her life and suggests that he act as judge?

2. What does Zenobia tell Priscilla that she stood in the way of?

3. What does Moodie reveal to Coverdale that his name was twenty-five years earlier?

4. Who does Hollingsworth tell that he must be with him or against him?

5. Moodie admits that out of his two daughters, he loves Priscilla the best, only that love comes from what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gets Moodie to reveal his past to Coverdale?

2. What questions does Zenobia ask Hollingsworth at Eliot's Pulpit in Section 13, Chapter 25?

3. What is ironic about Hollingsworth accidentally wounding Zenobia's corpse?

4. Why is Coverdale jealous of Westervelt?

5. After Zenobia asks for Priscilla's forgiveness in Section 13, Chapter 25, what question does Zenobia ask her?

6. What strange foreboding does Coverdale have after Zenobia leaves Blithedale, and what does he do?

7. How was Moodie's life different twenty-five years ago?

8. What scheme does Hollingsworth ask Coverdale to join him in?

9. What does Zenobia do after Hollingsworth and Priscilla walk off together, arm in arm, in Section 13, Chapter 25?

10. What are three of the creatures that Coverdale spies in the woods as he returns to Blithedale?

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