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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name does the doctor want Hester to reveal?
(a) The name of the witch.
(b) The name of her child.
(c) The name of her husband.
(d) The name of her lover.

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

3. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?
(a) A Preface.
(b) Introductory to The Scarlet Letter.
(c) A Play in Four Acts.
(d) A Novel of Morals.

4. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?
(a) "A fletched arrow."
(b) "A red-hot iron."
(c) "A mysterious maze."
(d) "A tall white pedestal."

5. Where was Hester's "happy infancy and stainless maidenhood?"
(a) Rural England.
(b) Bustling London.
(c) Salem.
(d) Amsterdam.

Short Answer Questions

1. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?

2. Where does the minister go in the beginning of Chapter 12?

3. One person suggest that Hester should have an iron brand burned where?

4. What color is the letter A Pearl fashions for herself out of natural objects ?

5. Where does Chillingworth take up residence?

(see the answer key)

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