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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?
(a) Hester and Chillingworth.
(b) Chillingworth and Bellingham.
(c) Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.
(d) Hester and Dimmesdale.

2. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?
(a) Lilacs.
(b) A rose bush.
(c) A weeping willow.
(d) Dandelions.

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

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) Chillingworth.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Hester.
(d) Dimmesdale.

5. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?
(a) Seven.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Less than one.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the shape of the hats worn in the "throng"?

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

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

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

5. What is the "pedestal of infamy?"

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