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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. This group in the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22 was showing "a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar"?
(a) The sailors.
(b) The musicians.
(c) The soldiers.
(d) The public officials.

3. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for Dimmesdale's "red stigma"?
(a) Chillingworth did it.
(b) God did it.
(c) The minister did it to himself.
(d) Hester put it there.

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

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

6. Pearl recognizes a man in the procession who did what?
(a) Gave her a red rose from his garden.
(b) Kissed her by the brook.
(c) Stole money from Hester.
(d) Visited Hester and her in jail.

7. 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 Chillingworth's true identity.
(c) That he knows who Hester's lover is.
(d) That he no longer needs his services as doctor.

8. Who is the "grim, ugly-eyed old man" who recognizes Pearl?
(a) Her father.
(b) Hester's former husband.
(c) The old jailer.
(d) The old governor.

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

10. How long did it take before Chillingworth died?
(a) Five years.
(b) Ten years.
(c) Immediately after Dimmesdale.
(d) Less than a year.

11. Who in the audience taunts Hester and Pearl at the appearance of Dimmesdale?
(a) Bellingham.
(b) Brackett.
(c) Hibbins.
(d) Chillingworth.

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

13. What suggests that Pearl will have a child of her own at the end of the novel?
(a) Hester is sewing infant clothes.
(b) Pearl's stomach is large.
(c) Pearl has gotten married quickly.
(d) Hester calls herself "Grandma Hester."

14. What is the title of Chapter 20?
(a) "The Minister in the Middle."
(b) "The Mysterious Minister."
(c) "The Minister in the Mirror."
(d) "The Minister in a Maze."

15. Dimmesdale learns that he is preach what important sermon?
(a) The Inauguration sermon.
(b) Chillingworth's funeral sermon.
(c) Hester's marriage sermon.
(d) The Election sermon.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Its ranks were filled with gentlemen, who felt the stirrings of martial impulse" describes which group of men in the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22?

2. How is Hibbins related to the Governor?

3. What does Hester tell Dimmesdale about Chillingworth in Chapter 17?

4. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?

5. Whom does Dimmesdale call up to join him in front of everyone?

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