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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective best characterizes the governor's house?
(a) Plain.
(b) Baroque.
(c) Opulent.
(d) Cramped.

2. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?
(a) The name of her lover.
(b) The name of her husband.
(c) The name of her child.
(d) The name of the witch.

3. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Approximately 15 or 20.
(b) Approximately 50 or 60.
(c) Approximately 90 or 100.
(d) Approximately 150 or more.

4. Chose which of the following best describes the tone in the last sentence of Chapter 1?
(a) Somber.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Bright.
(d) Ambivalent.

5. Which description does not apply to Dimmesdale?
(a) Nervous temperament.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Weak frame.
(d) Sensitive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?

2. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?

3. Which field had Bellingham trained for/been educated in?

4. The following description of someone's eyes in Chapter 10 refers to which character: "burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace....like one of those gleams of ghastly fire"?

5. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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