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

2. Who is with the governor when Hester visits his house to deliver something?
(a) Wilson, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth.
(b) Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Hibbins.
(c) Wilson and Dimmesdale.
(d) Lee, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale.

3. This preface is the preface to which edition of the novel?
(a) The third.
(b) The first.
(c) The second.
(d) The fourth.

4. Which field had Bellingham trained for/been educated in?
(a) Religion.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Military.
(d) Law.

5. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Approximately 90 or 100.
(b) Approximately 150 or more.
(c) Approximately 50 or 60.
(d) Approximately 15 or 20.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?

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

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

4. What kind of men are rare in the colony, according to the narrator?

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

(see the answer key)

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