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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Pearl will not cross the brook, what does Hester tell her she can leap like?
(a) Little girls.
(b) Bull frog.
(c) Young deer.
(d) Giant grasshopper.

2. What does Hester mean when she says "Thou shalt not go alone" at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) That she will run away with Dimmesdale.
(b) That she will send Pearl with Dimmesdale.
(c) That Chillingworth will follow Dimmesdale.
(d) That Dimmesdale should not leave.

3. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The governor's mansion.
(b) The church.
(c) The schoolhouse.
(d) The cemetery.

4. Hester says that Pearl is "strange" and what at first?
(a) Creepy.
(b) Outgoing.
(c) Familar.
(d) Shy.

5. When Hester exclaims "better he had died at once!," to whom is she referring in Chapter 14?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) The new governor.
(c) The old governor.
(d) Dimmesdale.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dimmesdale learns that he is preach what important sermon?

3. In Chapter 19, how does Dimmesdale say Pearl looks?

4. According to Hester in Chapter 16, where does she tell Pearl she got the scarlet letter?

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

(see the answer key)

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