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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color is the letter A Pearl fashions for herself out of natural objects ?
(a) Green.
(b) White.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

2. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Her lover.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Her (former) husband.
(d) Her confessor.

3. According to Hester in Chapter 16, where does she tell Pearl she got the scarlet letter?
(a) From Mistress Hibbins.
(b) From the Dark Man.
(c) From the Black Man.
(d) From the Dark Reverend.

4. Which field had Bellingham trained for/been educated in?
(a) Law.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Military.
(d) Religion.

5. Hawthorne calls the Custom House a...?
(a) Portrait of the Puritans.
(b) Sketch of old-time Salem.
(c) Picture of the colony.
(d) Sketch of official life.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hester is a self-ordained what?

2. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?

3. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?

4. What color is the thread that embroiders the scarlet letter?

5. Which one of the following descriptions does not apply to Pearl?

(see the answer key)

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