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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?
(a) The name of her husband.
(b) The name of the witch.
(c) The name of her lover.
(d) The name of her child.

2. 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) Pearl.
(d) Dimmesdale.

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

4. Who is Hester's legal husband?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Lee.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, in Chapter 13, "glimmers" with an "unearthly ray"?

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

4. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?

5. Whom do Dimmesdale and Chillingworth see out the window at the end of Chapter 10?

(see the answer key)

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