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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Hawthorne calls the Custom House a...?
(a) Picture of the colony.
(b) Sketch of official life.
(c) Sketch of old-time Salem.
(d) Portrait of the Puritans.

2. Despite his triumph in delivering the sermon in Chapter 23, how does Dimmesdale appear?
(a) "Feeble and pale."
(b) "Wanton and wan."
(c) "Delicate and forlorn."
(d) "Hale and hearty."

3. What is NOT one of the possible crimes mentioned in this Chapter 2, as a reason people might flock to the prison?
(a) Murder.
(b) Religious heterodoxy.
(c) Sluggish bond servant.
(d) Undutiful child.

4. What does Pearl desperately desire from the governor's garden?
(a) A tulip.
(b) A cabbage.
(c) A pumpkin.
(d) A rose.

5. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?
(a) Apple pie.
(b) An eagle.
(c) The stars and stripes.
(d) Uncle Sam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who retrieves the object that Hester flings away?

2. What facial expression of Chillingworth displays his true malice, which the narrator calls "his blackness" in Chapter 14?

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

4. What does Dimmesdale tell Chillingworth while he is writing the sermon is Chapter 20?

5. Why do Hester and Dimmesdale chose the place they do to escape to?

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