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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the door to the jail made of?
(a) Mahogany.
(b) Maple.
(c) Oak.
(d) Birch.

2. What color is Hester's hair?
(a) Blond.
(b) Gray.
(c) Red.
(d) Dark.

3. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Governors.
(c) Clergy.
(d) Witches.

4. Why does Hawthorne refuse to change what he has written?
(a) He thinks it is true.
(b) He enjoys the notoriety.
(c) He has made too much money from it.
(d) He wants to hurt the victim of his wit.

5. Who is the patient referred to in the title of Chapter 10?
(a) Leech.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Bellingham.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the first thing that Pearl noticed, as a baby?

2. What does Hester mean when she says "Thou shalt not go alone" at the end of Chapter 17?

3. What is the title of Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?

5. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?

(see the answer key)

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