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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who retrieves the object that Hester flings away?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Hester.
(d) No one.

2. Which minister in the book has "a border of grizzled locks beneath his skull-cap" and gray eyes?
(a) Lee.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Dimmesdale.

3. What does Hester fling next to the brook?
(a) Her scarlet letter.
(b) Her bonnet.
(c) Dimmesdale's Bible.
(d) Chillingworth's herbs.

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

5. When Pearl repeatedly asks Hester what the letter stand for, what does Hester tell her in Chapter 15?
(a) She says it stands for Able.
(b) She does not give an answer.
(c) She says it stands for Adultry
(d) She says it is a witch's mark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which field had Bellingham trained for/been educated in?

3. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?

4. What group of people leads the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22?

5. What is the holiday referred to in the title of Chapter 21?

(see the answer key)

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