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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 name of the grave-yard Hawthorne mentions in his discussion of his ancestors?
(a) Old Church burial-ground.
(b) Town Cemetery.
(c) Salem Cemetery.
(d) Charter Street burial-ground.

2. Where has Chillingworth been gathering herbs, when he is asked by the minister in Chapter 10?
(a) In the governor's garden.
(b) In a graveyard.
(c) In Hester's garden.
(d) By the seashoer.

3. Where does Chillingworth take up residence?
(a) At the Governor's.
(b) With Mistress Hibbins.
(c) In the same rooming house as Dimmesdale.
(d) With Dimmesdale, at the rectory.

4. Who is with the governor when Hester visits his house to deliver something?
(a) Wilson, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth.
(b) Wilson and Dimmesdale.
(c) Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Hibbins.
(d) Lee, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale.

5. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?
(a) Dimmesdale's diary.
(b) The scarlet letter.
(c) A painting of Hester and Pearl.
(d) Hester's diary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?

2. What color is the thread that embroiders the scarlet letter?

3. What is the subtitle of "The Custom-House"?

4. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?

5. Who is named as Hester's pastor in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hawthorne decide to republish the offending introduction?

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

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

4. What does Hawthorne find alongside the scarlet letter?

5. What has happened to the original spirit of the town of Salem, as in, to the legacy of the original founders?

6. Name one of the two reasons Hawthorne suspects that the plant standing outside the prison survived.

7. Does Hawthorne, in the end, decide to change anything?

8. How does Pearl react to other children?

9. What kind of skill does Hester use to support herself?

10. How is Chillingworth able to see what Dimmesdale is hiding on his body?

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