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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Wood.
(c) Seashell.
(d) Iron.

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

3. What are the "delicate gems" referred to at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Hester's pearl necklace.
(b) Flowers.
(c) The ladies in the crowd.
(d) The spikes on the door to the jail.

4. What is the shape of the hats worn in the "throng"?
(a) Cone.
(b) Pillbox.
(c) Steeple.
(d) Derby.

5. Who is the patient referred to in the title of Chapter 10?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Leech.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Bellingham.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is mentioned in Chapter 13 as a "foundress of a religious sect?"

3. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?

4. What is the title of the first chapter?

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"?

(see the answer key)

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