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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?
(a) The minister's.
(b) The governor's.
(c) The narrator's.
(d) The magistrate's.

2. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?
(a) Joy.
(b) Detriment.
(c) Laughter.
(d) Amusement.

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

4. What color is Hester's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Blond.
(c) Gray.
(d) Dark.

5. Hawthorne utterly disclaims what kind of motives?
(a) Spiritual and political.
(b) Personal and politcal.
(c) Personal, legal and moral.
(d) Petty and partisan.

Short Answer Questions

1. One person suggest that Hester should have an iron brand burned where?

2. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?

3. Who thinks that Hester's punishment/sentence is too light?

4. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?

5. According to Hawthorne, the reaction could not have been more violent if...?

(see the answer key)

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