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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What metal is the previously mentioned book and pen associated with?
(a) Gold.
(b) Iron.
(c) Bronze.
(d) Silver.

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

4. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?
(a) "The anguish in his inmost soul."
(b) "The mercy of almightly Heaven."
(c) "The malice in Chillingworth's eyes."
(d) "The joy in his beating heart."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?

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

3. How does Hester dress her daughter?

4. What distinguishes the men in the "throng" at the beginning of thChapter 1?

5. What facial expression of Chillingworth displays his true malice, which the narrator calls "his blackness" in Chapter 14?

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