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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pearl do when Dimmesdale kisses her?
(a) She washes it off.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She kisses him back.
(d) She wipes it on Hester's scarlet letter.

2. The following description of someone's eyes in Chapter 10 refers to which character: "burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace....like one of those gleams of ghastly fire"?
(a) Hester.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Chillingworth.

3. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?
(a) Chillingworth and Bellingham.
(b) Hester and Chillingworth.
(c) Hester and Dimmesdale.
(d) Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.

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

5. What was the door to the jail made of?
(a) Birch.
(b) Mahogany.
(c) Oak.
(d) Maple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following descriptions does not apply to Pearl?

2. Dimmesdale claims that his scarlet letter burns how?

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

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

5. What is one of Chillingworth's distinguishing physical features?

(see the answer key)

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