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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?
(a) A weeping willow.
(b) A rose bush.
(c) Dandelions.
(d) Lilacs.

2. The title of Chapter 8 is the what and "the Minister?"
(a) The Elf-Child and the Minister.
(b) The Elfin and the Minister.
(c) The Minstrel and the Minister.
(d) The Miniature and the Minstrel.

3. Which character is described as having a "wildflower prettiness?"
(a) Hibbins.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Hester.
(d) Chillingworth.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dimmesdale hold his hand often throughout the novel?

2. What is the name of the grave-yard Hawthorne mentions in his discussion of his ancestors?

3. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?

4. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?

5. This preface is the preface to which edition of the novel?

(see the answer key)

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