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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. 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) The ladies in the crowd.
(b) The spikes on the door to the jail.
(c) Hester's pearl necklace.
(d) Flowers.

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

5. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) The Prison-Door.
(b) TheJail-Door.
(c) The Prison Rose.
(d) Gaol-Door Rock.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quiets Pearl in this when she wants something from the governor's garden?

2. What was the door to the jail made of?

3. What is the "pedestal of infamy?"

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

5. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?

(see the answer key)

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