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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 Meeting.
(b) The Recognizance.
(c) The Recognition.
(d) The Resistance.

2. Salem is characterized currently as....?
(a) Desolate.
(b) Bustling.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Busy.

3. Who is NOT among the crowd shaming Hester?
(a) The judges.
(b) The governor.
(c) Hester's pastor.
(d) Hester's parents.

4. Chillingworth is described as which of the following in Chapter 11?
(a) Mage.
(b) Warlock.
(c) Magician.
(d) Spellcaster.

5. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
(a) The governor himself.
(b) The governor's daughter.
(c) The governor's wife.
(d) The governor's servants.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"

2. What quiets Pearl in this when she wants something from the governor's garden?

3. What kind of men are rare in the colony, according to the narrator?

4. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?

5. One person suggest that Hester should have an iron brand burned where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of plant stands outside the prison, offering a contrast in color and form? Describe what the narrator says about it.

2. What is Dimmesdale's argument for keeping Hester and Pearl together?

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

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

5. What does Hawthorne say the purpose of the eagle is, which hangs in front of the building?

6. What does Hawthorne find alongside the scarlet letter?

7. Describe the door to the jail.

8. What does Chillingworth implore Hester to do when they meet in the jail?

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

10. Of all the finery in the governor's mansion, what does Pearl cry for most of all?

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