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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hester is a self-ordained what?
(a) Sister of Chastity.
(b) Sister of Mercy.
(c) Sister of Sin.
(d) Sister of Integrity.

2. What is the health problem wrong with Dimmesdale?
(a) Tuberculosis.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) Failing eyesight.
(d) Failing health.

3. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
(a) The governor's daughter.
(b) The governor's servants.
(c) The governor's wife.
(d) The governor himself.

4. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The church.
(b) The cemetery.
(c) The governor's mansion.
(d) The schoolhouse.

5. Where is Hester when she and Pearl are examined by the doctor?
(a) In jail.
(b) In church.
(c) At the doctor's office.
(d) At the governor's mansion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following creatures is not mentioned while Pearl plays on the shore?

2. Who is Hester's legal husband?

3. In what month does Chapter 1 take place?

4. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?

5. Why, according to Pearl, does sunshine "run away and hide itself" from Hester?

(see the answer key)

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