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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Seashell.
(c) Wood.
(d) Iron.

3. What are the "delicate gems" referred to at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) Hester's pearl necklace.
(b) Flowers.
(c) The spikes on the door to the jail.
(d) The ladies in the crowd.

4. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her confessor.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her (former) husband.

5. Whom does Dimmesdale set out to meet?
(a) Disciple Adrian.
(b) Apostle Elias.
(c) Disciple Ellison.
(d) Apostle Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hibbins related to the Governor?

2. In Chapter 19, how does Dimmesdale say Pearl looks?

3. The following description of someone's eyes in Chapter 10 refers to which character: "burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace....like one of those gleams of ghastly fire"?

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

5. When the doctor gives Hester something to drink, what does she think is in the cup?

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