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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is the ship the Spanish Main sailing?
(a) Boston.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Barcelona.

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

4. While she is playing, Pearl makes a little boat out of what?
(a) Sand dollars.
(b) Sea weed.
(c) Birch bark.
(d) Acorns.

5. 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.

6. Where does Dimmesdale imagine a "scarlet token?"
(a) On Pearl.
(b) On Hester.
(c) On his chest.
(d) On his forehead.

7. Why is Dimmesdale at the town center Chapter 12?
(a) To stand side by side with Hester.
(b) To trick Chillingworth.
(c) To shame Hester.
(d) To proclaim his guilt in public.

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

9. How is Hibbins related to the Governor?
(a) His sister-in-law.
(b) His sister.
(c) No relation.
(d) His daughter.

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

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

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

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

14. Where does the minister go in the beginning of Chapter 12?
(a) To Hester's.
(b) To the governor's.
(c) To church.
(d) To the scaffold.

15. What marks particular attendants of the holiday as members of their forest settlements?
(a) Their rough speech.
(b) Their scarlet F's.
(c) Their long hair.
(d) Their deer-skin clothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is mentioned in Chapter 13 as a "foundress of a religious sect?"

2. What, according to many of the townspeople who have come to appreciate Hester, should the A stand for?

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

4. Despite his triumph in delivering the sermon in Chapter 23, how does Dimmesdale appear?

5. Who is said to haunt the forest outside town, carrying a big, heavy book with him?

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