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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. The following description of someone's eyes in Chapter 10 refers to which character: "burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace....like one of those gleams of ghastly fire"?
(a) Hester.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Pearl.
(d) Chillingworth.

2. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?
(a) Mother Theresa.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) The pope.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

3. What is the health problem wrong with Dimmesdale?
(a) Failing health.
(b) Scoliosis.
(c) Tuberculosis.
(d) Failing eyesight.

4. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) The Prison Rose.
(b) Gaol-Door Rock.
(c) The Prison-Door.
(d) TheJail-Door.

5. Chapter 6 is named after which character?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Pearl.
(c) Hester.
(d) Dimmesdale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose voice is "tremulously sweet, rich, deep and broken?"

2. Hawthorne calls the Custom House a...?

3. Who is with the governor when Hester visits his house to deliver something?

4. When Wilson asks Pearl who made her, what does she answer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Hawthorne's narrator thinks of Reverend Dimmesdale's voice.

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

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

4. 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"?

5. How does Hawthorne describe the inhabitants of Boston?

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

7. What happens to Hester when the jailer introduces Chillingworth?

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

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

10. What are some examples of Chillingworth's growing power over Dimmesdale?

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