1. When Wilson asks Pearl who made her, what does she answer?
(a) That Dimmesdale is her father.
(b) That Hester had made her alone.
(c) That her mother had picked her off a rose bush.
(d) That a stork had delivered her.

2. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Meeting.
(b) The Resistance.
(c) The Recognition.
(d) The Recognizance.

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

4. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Approximately 90 or 100.
(b) Approximately 150 or more.
(c) Approximately 50 or 60.
(d) Approximately 15 or 20.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The following description of someone's eyes in Chapter 10 refers to which character: "burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace....like one of those gleams of ghastly fire"?

2. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?

3. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?

4. Where was Reverend Dimmesdale trained in religion?

5. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?

(see the answer key)

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