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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Next to whom is Hester Prynne eventually buried?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) No one--she is buried alone.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Chillingworth, her husband.

2. According to Dimmesdale, Chillingworth's revenge has been "____ than [his] sin"?
(a) Eviler.
(b) Darker.
(c) Deeper.
(d) Blacker.

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

4. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Witches.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Governors.
(d) Clergy.

5. Who are the "rough-looking desperadoes, with sun-blackened faces" at the holiday in Chapter 21?
(a) Englishmen.
(b) Puritans.
(c) Indians.
(d) Sailors.

6. What does Dimmesdale tell Chillingworth while he is writing the sermon is Chapter 20?
(a) That he is feeling close to death.
(b) That he knows who Hester's lover is.
(c) That he no longer needs his services as doctor.
(d) That he knows Chillingworth's true identity.

7. What had Dimmesdale been doing to himself?
(a) He had been treating his own illness.
(b) He had been fasting.
(c) He had been staying awake all night.
(d) He had been self-flagellating.

8. In what month does this "obscure night" take place in Chapter 12?
(a) May.
(b) January.
(c) November.
(d) August.

9. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) The Pastor and His Lover.
(b) The Pastor and the Thief.
(c) The Pastor and His Parish.
(d) The Pastor and His Parishoner.

10. Where have Hester and Dimmesdale decided would be the best place to escape to?
(a) Salem.
(b) An Indian settlement.
(c) Europe.
(d) The American South.

11. Which of the following creatures is not mentioned while Pearl plays on the shore?
(a) Jellyfish.
(b) Lobster.
(c) Birds.
(d) Horseshoe crab.

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

13. What metal is the previously mentioned book and pen associated with?
(a) Silver.
(b) Iron.
(c) Gold.
(d) Bronze.

14. How does the narrator characterize Dimmesdale's sermon?
(a) The narrator exhalts it.
(b) The narrator disparages it.
(c) The narrator neither praises nor diminshes it.
(d) The narrator ignores it.

15. What color is the letter A Pearl fashions for herself out of natural objects ?
(a) Red.
(b) White.
(c) Green.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pearl do when Dimmesdale kisses her?

2. Dimmesdale claims that his scarlet letter burns how?

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

4. What, in Chapter 13, "glimmers" with an "unearthly ray"?

5. Why do Hester and Dimmesdale chose the place they do to escape to?

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