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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the former queen of England, Elizabeth I?
(a) Dainty.
(b) Man-like.
(c) Feminine.
(d) Iron-willed.

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

3. This preface is the preface to which edition of the novel?
(a) The second.
(b) The fourth.
(c) The first.
(d) The third.

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

5. According to Hawthorne, the reaction could not have been more violent if...?
(a) He had kidnapped someone.
(b) He had committed adultery.
(c) He had burned down the Custom-House.
(d) He had murdered someone.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the doctor gives Hester something to drink, what does she think is in the cup?

2. The title of Chapter 9 ("The Leech") refers to which character?

3. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?

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

5. Which character says, ironically, "why should a wretched man, guilty, we will say, of murder, prefer to keep the dead corpse buried in his own heart, rather than fling it forth at once"?

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