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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Reverend Dimmesdale trained in religion?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

2. Why is Dimmesdale at the town center Chapter 12?
(a) To trick Chillingworth.
(b) To proclaim his guilt in public.
(c) To shame Hester.
(d) To stand side by side with Hester.

3. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's love life.
(b) Hester's guilt.
(c) Hester's past.
(d) Hester's work.

4. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
(a) The governor's daughter.
(b) The governor himself.
(c) The governor's servants.
(d) The governor's wife.

5. 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) Sluggish bond servant.
(c) Undutiful child.
(d) Religious heterodoxy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?

3. Hawthorne utterly disclaims what kind of motives?

4. How does the narrator describe the former queen of England, Elizabeth I?

5. Where is Hester when Chillingworth leaves, "his gray beard almost" touching the ground?

(see the answer key)

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