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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street runs outside the Custom-House?
(a) High Street.
(b) Salem Road.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Derby Street.

2. Which political party does Hawthorne belong?
(a) Republican.
(b) Whig.
(c) Bull Moose.
(d) Tory.

3. How does Hester dress her daughter?
(a) In "rustic weeds."
(b) In "paler loveliness."
(c) In the "richest tissue."
(d) In "infinite variety."

4. According to the narrator, what is the first thing that Pearl noticed, as a baby?
(a) The scarlet letter.
(b) Seashells.
(c) Hester's long black hair.
(d) Her own curls.

5. What is the name of the grave-yard Hawthorne mentions in his discussion of his ancestors?
(a) Salem Cemetery.
(b) Charter Street burial-ground.
(c) Town Cemetery.
(d) Old Church burial-ground.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hawthorne describe the historic Salem of years ago?

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

3. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"

4. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?

5. To whom does this description refer: "a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb"?

(see the answer key)

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