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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 does Hester mean when she says "Thou shalt not go alone" at the end of Chapter 17?
(a) That Chillingworth will follow Dimmesdale.
(b) That she will run away with Dimmesdale.
(c) That she will send Pearl with Dimmesdale.
(d) That Dimmesdale should not leave.

2. What does Hester tell Dimmesdale about Chillingworth in Chapter 17?
(a) That he is her husband.
(b) That he is really a Catholic.
(c) That he is not really a doctor.
(d) That he is on an undercover mission for the governor.

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

4. Why, according to Pearl, does sunshine "run away and hide itself" from Hester?
(a) Because of her long gray dress.
(b) Because of the scarlet letter.
(c) Because of the foliage.
(d) Because of her fair skin.

5. According to Dimmesdale, Chillingworth's revenge has been "____ than [his] sin"?
(a) Eviler.
(b) Darker.
(c) Blacker.
(d) Deeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what kind of natural objects has Pearl decorated herself in Chapter 18?

2. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for Dimmesdale's "red stigma"?

3. Where does the minister go in the beginning of Chapter 12?

4. Why will Pearl not come to Hester in Chapter 19?

5. What does Dimmesdale tell Chillingworth while he is writing the sermon is Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, in Chapter 18, does Hester remove the scarlet letter and fling it into a brook?

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

3. Why do Hester and Pearl gather with other townspeople at the beginning of Chapter 21?

4. Why, at the end of the book, is Hester making a baby garment?

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

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

7. What, according to the narrator, enlivened the public holiday with "some diversity of hue?"

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

9. When Dimmesdale refuses to travel and quit his post as minister, how does Hester change his mind?

10. Why does Hester go to meet Dimmesdale in the woods?

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