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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to many of the townspeople who have come to appreciate Hester, should the A stand for?
(a) Addled.
(b) Angel.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Able.

2. "Hester at her WHAT" is the title of Chapter 5?
(a) Bedside.
(b) Confession.
(c) Wit's End.
(d) Needle.

3. What does Hester mean when she says "Thou shalt not go alone" at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) That Chillingworth will follow Dimmesdale.
(b) That she will run away with Dimmesdale.
(c) That Dimmesdale should not leave.
(d) That she will send Pearl with Dimmesdale.

4. Which plant is NOT mentioned in Chapter 1?
(a) Apple-peru.
(b) Milkweed.
(c) Pigweed.
(d) Burdock.

5. Hester says that Pearl is "strange" and what at first?
(a) Creepy.
(b) Familar.
(c) Shy.
(d) Outgoing.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What color is the letter A Pearl fashions for herself out of natural objects ?

4. "Its ranks were filled with gentlemen, who felt the stirrings of martial impulse" describes which group of men in the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22?

5. What does Pearl desperately desire from the governor's garden?

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