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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"
(a) The Puritans.
(b) The Indians.
(c) The Dutch.
(d) The governor's family.

2. What kind of men are rare in the colony, according to the narrator?
(a) Doctors and scientists.
(b) Artists.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Hunters.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patient referred to in the title of Chapter 10?

2. Chose which of the following best describes the tone in the last sentence of Chapter 1?

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

4. From which city is this preface written?

5. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?

(see the answer key)

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