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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The "public disapprobation" refers to...?
(a) Criticism.
(b) Approval.
(c) Praise.
(d) Celebration.

2. What street runs outside the Custom-House?
(a) High Street.
(b) Derby Street.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Salem Road.

3. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The cemetery.
(b) The church.
(c) The governor's mansion.
(d) The schoolhouse.

4. Salem is characterized currently as....?
(a) Desolate.
(b) Bustling.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Busy.

5. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Recognizance.
(b) The Meeting.
(c) The Resistance.
(d) The Recognition.

6. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) Mother Theresa.
(c) The pope.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

7. Chillingworth has a degree from a university in which country?
(a) Italy.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Holland.

8. Who was the father of the Custom-House?
(a) General Miller.
(b) Uncle Sam.
(c) Hawthorne's grandfather.
(d) The permanent Inspector.

9. What are the "delicate gems" referred to at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) The ladies in the crowd.
(b) Flowers.
(c) The spikes on the door to the jail.
(d) Hester's pearl necklace.

10. Who is Hester's legal husband?
(a) Lee.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Wilson.

11. Where has Chillingworth been gathering herbs, when he is asked by the minister in Chapter 10?
(a) In a graveyard.
(b) In Hester's garden.
(c) In the governor's garden.
(d) By the seashoer.

12. Where was Hester's "happy infancy and stainless maidenhood?"
(a) Amsterdam.
(b) Rural England.
(c) Salem.
(d) Bustling London.

13. Which character is described as having a "wildflower prettiness?"
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Hester.
(c) Hibbins.
(d) Pearl.

14. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?
(a) "The malice in Chillingworth's eyes."
(b) "The anguish in his inmost soul."
(c) "The mercy of almightly Heaven."
(d) "The joy in his beating heart."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. By what moniker does Hawthorne name the Custom-House building itself?

2. What color is the thread that embroiders the scarlet letter?

3. Which minister in the book has "a border of grizzled locks beneath his skull-cap" and gray eyes?

4. Why does Hawthorne refuse to change what he has written?

5. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?

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