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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinguishes the men in the "throng" at the beginning of thChapter 1?
(a) They are bald.
(b) They are ministers.
(c) They are fat.
(d) They are bearded.

2. 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."

3. In Chapter 19, how does Dimmesdale say Pearl looks?
(a) "Strangely beautiful."
(b) "Uncannily adorable."
(c) "Strangely familiar."
(d) "Uncannily strange."

4. Where does Dimmesdale hold his hand often throughout the novel?
(a) Clutching the Bible.
(b) In his pocket.
(c) Over his heart.
(d) Over his eyes.

5. Who retrieves the object that Hester flings away?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Hester.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?

2. Who was the father of the Custom-House?

3. What does Hester threaten to do at the end of Chapter 14?

4. According to Hester in Chapter 16, where does she tell Pearl she got the scarlet letter?

5. When Hester exclaims "better he had died at once!," to whom is she referring in Chapter 14?

(see the answer key)

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