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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?
(a) A painting of Hester and Pearl.
(b) Dimmesdale's diary.
(c) The scarlet letter.
(d) Hester's diary.

2. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"
(a) The Puritans.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The governor's family.
(d) The Dutch.

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) Flowers.
(d) Hester's pearl necklace.

4. 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.

5. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Approximately 50 or 60.
(b) Approximately 15 or 20.
(c) Approximately 90 or 100.
(d) Approximately 150 or more.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?

3. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?

4. Whose voice is "tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken?"

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

(see the answer key)

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