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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. To whom does this description refer: "a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb"?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Bellingham.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Chillingworth.

2. Which character is described as having a "wildflower prettiness?"
(a) Hibbins.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Hester.

3. When Wilson asks Pearl who made her, what does she answer?
(a) That a stork had delivered her.
(b) That her mother had picked her off a rose bush.
(c) That Hester had made her alone.
(d) That Dimmesdale is her father.

4. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The governor's mansion.
(b) The church.
(c) The cemetery.
(d) The schoolhouse.

5. The title of Chapter 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?
(a) Hester and Dimmesdale.
(b) Chillingworth and Bellingham.
(c) Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.
(d) Hester and Chillingworth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which field had Bellingham trained for/been educated in?

2. What are the two non-Puritan sects mentioned in this Chapter 2?

3. What, at the end of Chapter 11, is the "only truth" for Dimmesdale?

4. Who is the patient referred to in the title of Chapter 10?

5. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dimmesdale not see through Chillingworth and understand his true (nefarious) agenda, according to the narrator in Chapter 10?

2. What does the governor think about Hester as a mother?

3. Describe the setting Hawthorne describes of the busy wharf.

4. Why does Hester stay in town after she is released from jail in Chapter 5?

5. Why is "The Leech" an appropriate and significant name for this chapter?

6. Why is Hester standing before the townsfolk in the beginning of the novel?

7. What does Hawthorne find alongside the scarlet letter?

8. As the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale develops in Chapter 9, what do the townspeople begin to suspect about Dimmesdale and why?

9. Describe the people referred to as the five in the following quotation: "If the hussy stood for judgment before us five, that are now here in a knot together"?

10. Why does Hawthorne say that it is ironic that Pearl is such a beautiful child, in Chapter 6?

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