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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pearl desperately desire from the governor's garden?
(a) A pumpkin.
(b) A cabbage.
(c) A tulip.
(d) A rose.

2. What is the "pedestal of infamy?"
(a) The governor's mantle.
(b) The scaffold.
(c) The altar.
(d) The steeple.

3. Which character says, ironically, "why should a wretched man, guilty, we will say, of murder, prefer to keep the dead corpse buried in his own heart, rather than fling it forth at once"?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Hester.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Dimmesdale.

4. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?
(a) Chillingworth and Bellingham.
(b) Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.
(c) Hester and Chillingworth.
(d) Hester and Dimmesdale.

5. Whom do Dimmesdale and Chillingworth see out the window at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Hester and Pearl.
(b) Just Hester.
(c) Just Pearl.
(d) Their own reflections.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?

2. Where has Chillingworth been gathering herbs, when he is asked by the minister in Chapter 10?

3. What, according to many of the townspeople who have come to appreciate Hester, should the A stand for?

4. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?

5. Chose which of the following best describes the tone in the last sentence of Chapter 1?

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