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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. Where have Hester and Dimmesdale decided would be the best place to escape to?
(a) Europe.
(b) Salem.
(c) The American South.
(d) An Indian settlement.

2. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?
(a) "A red-hot iron."
(b) "A tall white pedestal."
(c) "A fletched arrow."
(d) "A mysterious maze."

3. Whom does Dimmesdale set out to meet?
(a) Apostle Elias.
(b) Disciple Adrian.
(c) Disciple Ellison.
(d) Apostle Eliot.

4. What is the title of Chapter 17?
(a) The Pastor and His Lover.
(b) The Pastor and His Parishoner.
(c) The Pastor and His Parish.
(d) The Pastor and the Thief.

5. Where does Dimmesdale imagine a "scarlet token?"
(a) On Pearl.
(b) On his forehead.
(c) On his chest.
(d) On Hester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dimmesdale's voice is compared to what natural phenomenon in Chapter 23?

2. What does Pearl do with sea weed?

3. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?

4. Who retrieves the object that Hester flings away?

5. When Hester exclaims "better he had died at once!," to whom is she referring in Chapter 14?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Dimmesdale go at the beginning of Chapter 12, and why?

2. In Chapter 14, what does Hester ask of Chillingworth?

3. Why does Chillingworth attempt to stop Hester and Pearl from joining Dimmesdale on the scaffold?

4. Many people pass Dimmesdale by in this chapter; why are so many people up so late and walking about?

5. When Hester calls for Pearl to come to her in Chapter 19, Pearl will not move from her spot in the woods. What prevents her from going to her mother?

6. According to the narrator, what appeared to be Dimmesdale's subject, in his sermon in Chapter 23?

7. How does the narrator describe the public officials in Chapter 22, many of whom were real historical figures (figures such as Bradstreet, Endicott, etc.)?

8. Why does Hester say that Dimmesdale should travel somewhere, "whether in some remote village or in vast London, [...] in Germany, in France," etc?

9. What kinds of thoughts occur to Dimmesdale when he sees a deacon on the way home in Chapter 20 and why?

10. In Chapter 15, when Pearl asks Hester what the letter stands for, what does Hester reply?

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