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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What, according to many of the townspeople who have come to appreciate Hester, should the A stand for?
(a) Able.
(b) Addled.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Angel.

3. Where does Chillingworth take up residence?
(a) With Mistress Hibbins.
(b) In the same rooming house as Dimmesdale.
(c) At the Governor's.
(d) With Dimmesdale, at the rectory.

4. What is the title of Chapter 14?
(a) The Doctor and Mrs. Chillingworth.
(b) Hester and the Physician.
(c) The Magical Doctor.
(d) Hester and the Magician.

5. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?
(a) Mary Magdalene.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) The pope.
(d) Mother Theresa.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?

3. Which description does not apply to Dimmesdale?

4. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?

5. How does Hester dress her daughter?

(see the answer key)

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