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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the title of Chapter 3?
(a) The Recognizance.
(b) The Meeting.
(c) The Resistance.
(d) The Recognition.
2. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?
(a) A Novel of Morals.
(b) A Preface.
(c) A Play in Four Acts.
(d) Introductory to The Scarlet Letter.
3. Who is named as Hester's pastor in Chapter 2?
(a) Reverand Wilson.
(b) Reverend Dimmesdale.
(c) No pastor is named.
(d) Reverand Hawthorne.
4. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) Gaol-Door Rock.
(b) The Prison-Door.
(c) TheJail-Door.
(d) The Prison Rose.
5. What is the name of the grave-yard Hawthorne mentions in his discussion of his ancestors?
(a) Salem Cemetery.
(b) Town Cemetery.
(c) Charter Street burial-ground.
(d) Old Church burial-ground.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the health problem wrong with Dimmesdale?
2. Which political party does Hawthorne belong?
3. How does the narrator describe the former queen of England, Elizabeth I?
4. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?
5. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 2, why might it be Mistress Hibbins who would be in the jail?
2. What kind of plant stands outside the prison, offering a contrast in color and form? Describe what the narrator says about it.
3. Why is "The Leech" an appropriate and significant name for this chapter?
4. When Hester delivers gloves to the governor, what is the other reason for her going there?
5. What has happened to the original spirit of the town of Salem, as in, to the legacy of the original founders?
6. How does Pearl react to other children?
7. Why does Hawthorne decide to republish the offending introduction?
8. Why is Hester standing before the townsfolk in the beginning of the novel?
9. Why does Hawthorne say that it is ironic that Pearl is such a beautiful child, in Chapter 6?
10. Of all the finery in the governor's mansion, what does Pearl cry for most of all?
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