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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the thread that embroiders the scarlet letter?
(a) Gold.
(b) Black.
(c) Silver.
(d) Red.

2. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?
(a) A rose bush.
(b) Dandelions.
(c) A weeping willow.
(d) Lilacs.

3. In which year was this preface written?
(a) 1750.
(b) 1800.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1850.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the shape of the hats worn in the "throng"?

2. This preface is the preface to which edition of the novel?

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

4. How does the narrator describe the former queen of England, Elizabeth I?

5. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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