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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What adjective best characterizes the governor's house?
(a) Cramped.
(b) Plain.
(c) Baroque.
(d) Opulent.

2. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?
(a) The narrator's.
(b) The magistrate's.
(c) The governor's.
(d) The minister's.

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

4. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Bedside.
(b) Needle.
(c) Wit's End.
(d) Confession.

5. 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"?
(a) Hester.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which city is this preface written?

2. While she is playing, Pearl makes a little boat out of what?

3. Where are Dimmesdale's parents?

4. The "public disapprobation" refers to...?

5. Why do most Puritans fast, according to the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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