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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. Who retrieves the object that Hester flings away?
(a) Pearl.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Hester.
(d) No one.
2. How does the narrator characterize Dimmesdale's sermon?
(a) The narrator neither praises nor diminshes it.
(b) The narrator ignores it.
(c) The narrator disparages it.
(d) The narrator exhalts it.
3. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Less than one.
4. Who in the audience taunts Hester and Pearl at the appearance of Dimmesdale?
(a) Hibbins.
(b) Bellingham.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Brackett.
5. Whom does Dimmesdale call up to join him in front of everyone?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Hester.
(d) Hester and Pearl.
Short Answer Questions
1. What facial expression of Chillingworth displays his true malice, which the narrator calls "his blackness" in Chapter 14?
2. This group in the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22 was showing "a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar"?
3. What had Dimmesdale been doing to himself?
4. What color is the letter A Pearl fashions for herself out of natural objects ?
5. John Wilson is described as having what relationship to Dimmesdale?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Hester say that Dimmesdale should travel somewhere, "whether in some remote village or in vast London, [...] in Germany, in France," etc?
2. Why does Hester go to meet Dimmesdale in the woods?
3. Why does Hawthorne describe Pearl, in Chapter 19, as a "living hieroglyphic."
4. In Chapter 14, what does Hester ask of Chillingworth?
5. According to the narrator, what appeared to be Dimmesdale's subject, in his sermon in Chapter 23?
6. Why, in Chapter 18, does Hester remove the scarlet letter and fling it into a brook?
7. How does Hawthorne describe Dimmesdale, either physically or emotionally, at the beginning of Chapter 13?
8. Why does Chillingworth attempt to stop Hester and Pearl from joining Dimmesdale on the scaffold?
9. Why, at the end of the book, is Hester making a baby garment?
10. Describe the three suspected causes of the "A" carved into Dimmesdale's chest.
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