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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whose voice is "tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken?"
(a) Hester's.
(b) Chillingworth's.
(c) Pearl's.
(d) Dimmesdale's.

3. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's past.
(b) Hester's guilt.
(c) Hester's love life.
(d) Hester's work.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What street runs outside the Custom-House?

2. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?

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

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

5. The following description of clothing belongs to which community leader: "a dark feather in his hat, a border of embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic beneath"?

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