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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While his health is failing, Dimmesdale has achieved what in his profession?
(a) "Populist ire."
(b) "Sanctimonius reputation."
(c) "Sturdier texture."
(d) "Brillant popularity."

3. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) TheJail-Door.
(b) The Prison Rose.
(c) The Prison-Door.
(d) Gaol-Door Rock.

4. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"
(a) The Dutch.
(b) The Puritans.
(c) The governor's family.
(d) The Indians.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What street runs outside the Custom-House?

2. Why is Dimmesdale at the town center Chapter 12?

3. What does Hester fling next to the brook?

4. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?

5. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?

(see the answer key)

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