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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Hester.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Pearl.

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

3. What was the door to the jail made of?
(a) Maple.
(b) Oak.
(c) Birch.
(d) Mahogany.

4. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Burdock.
(b) Apple-peru.
(c) Milkweed.
(d) Pigweed.

5. 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) Dimmesdale.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Hester.
(d) Chillingworth.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?

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

4. In what month does Chapter 1 take place?

5. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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