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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
(a) The governor himself.
(b) The governor's daughter.
(c) The governor's wife.
(d) The governor's servants.

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

3. What, in Chapter 13, "glimmers" with an "unearthly ray"?
(a) The meteor/falling star.
(b) Chillingworth's malice.
(c) The scarlet letter.
(d) Pearl's eyes.

4. What quiets Pearl in this when she wants something from the governor's garden?
(a) The gardener gives her what she wants.
(b) Her obedience to Hester.
(c) The appearance of the governor.
(d) Her nanny.

5. Where has Chillingworth been gathering herbs, when he is asked by the minister in Chapter 10?
(a) In the governor's garden.
(b) In a graveyard.
(c) By the seashoer.
(d) In Hester's garden.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?

2. What is the title of the first chapter?

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

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

5. Hester is a self-ordained what?

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