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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what point of view is "The Custom House" written?
(a) Third person, omniscient.
(b) Second.
(c) Third person, limited.
(d) First.

2. Who, in Chapter 5, is referred to as "the figure, the body, the reality of sin?"
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Hibbins.
(d) Hester.

3. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?
(a) A Play in Four Acts.
(b) A Preface.
(c) A Novel of Morals.
(d) Introductory to The Scarlet Letter.

4. When Wilson asks Pearl who made her, what does she answer?
(a) That Dimmesdale is her father.
(b) That Hester had made her alone.
(c) That a stork had delivered her.
(d) That her mother had picked her off a rose bush.

5. According to Hawthorne, the reaction could not have been more violent if...?
(a) He had burned down the Custom-House.
(b) He had murdered someone.
(c) He had kidnapped someone.
(d) He had committed adultery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?

2. What adjective best characterizes the governor's house?

3. What is Dimmesdale's "own red stigma"?

4. What is NOT one of the possible crimes mentioned in this Chapter 2, as a reason people might flock to the prison?

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

(see the answer key)

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