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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Pearl do with sea weed?
(a) Wraps it about her head.
(b) Lines her pockets with it.
(c) Spreads it along the beach.
(d) Eats it.

2. When Hester exclaims "better he had died at once!," to whom is she referring in Chapter 14?
(a) The new governor.
(b) The old governor.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Dimmesdale.

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

4. According to Hester in Chapter 16, where does she tell Pearl she got the scarlet letter?
(a) From the Dark Man.
(b) From Mistress Hibbins.
(c) From the Dark Reverend.
(d) From the Black Man.

5. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?
(a) "A red-hot iron."
(b) "A fletched arrow."
(c) "A tall white pedestal."
(d) "A mysterious maze."

6. Which of the following is NOT used by the narrator to describe Pearl in Chapter 21?
(a) Bird-like.
(b) Effervescent.
(c) Dour.
(d) Gem-like.

7. What does Pearl do when Dimmesdale kisses her?
(a) She kisses him back.
(b) She laughs.
(c) She washes it off.
(d) She wipes it on Hester's scarlet letter.

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

9. Why will Pearl not come to Hester in Chapter 19?
(a) She has taken off the letter.
(b) She is angry at her mother.
(c) She is across the brook.
(d) She is talking with a man.

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

11. What is the title of Chapter 18?
(a) A Flood of Sunshine.
(b) A River of Tears.
(c) A Flood of Brightness.
(d) An Ectasy of Light.

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

13. Where is Hester when Chillingworth leaves, "his gray beard almost" touching the ground?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In church.
(c) At the governor's.
(d) At the roominghouse.

14. According to the narrator, which of the following has NOT been one of Hester's "teachers"?
(a) Despair.
(b) Guilt.
(c) Shame.
(d) Solitude.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for Dimmesdale's "red stigma"?

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

3. What metal is the previously mentioned book and pen associated with?

4. Who, in the procession, "exhibited such energy as was seen in the gait and air"?

5. Why, according to Pearl, does sunshine "run away and hide itself" from Hester?

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