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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Hester stay in New England?
(a) Her family is there.
(b) She enjoys whaling.
(c) It is the scene of her crime.
(d) She enjoys the brisk winter.

2. What is Hester delivering to the governor's house when she goes there in Chapter 7?
(a) Bonnets.
(b) A scarf.
(c) Gloves.
(d) Lace.

3. Which minister in the book has "a border of grizzled locks beneath his skull-cap" and gray eyes?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Lee.
(d) Chillingworth.

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

5. What are the two non-Puritan sects mentioned in this Chapter 2?
(a) Antimonian and Quaker.
(b) Shaker and Quaker.
(c) Antimonian, Quaker, and Catholic.
(d) Quaker and Catholic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice is "tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken?"

2. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?

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

4. Chapter 6 is named after which character?

5. What street runs outside the Custom-House?

(see the answer key)

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