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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which description does not apply to Dimmesdale?
(a) Sensitive.
(b) Healthy.
(c) Nervous temperament.
(d) Weak frame.

2. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?
(a) Uncle Sam.
(b) The stars and stripes.
(c) Apple pie.
(d) An eagle.

3. Whose voice is "tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken?"
(a) Hester's.
(b) Dimmesdale's.
(c) Pearl's.
(d) Chillingworth's.

4. How does Hawthorne describe the historic Salem of years ago?
(a) A busy metropolis.
(b) A sad sailing town.
(c) A dour harbor.
(d) A bustling port.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?

3. What adjective best characterizes the governor's house?

4. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?

5. Which character is described as having a "wildflower prettiness?"

(see the answer key)

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