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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 is said to ride "with Satan through the air?"
(a) Demons.
(b) Witches.
(c) Bats.
(d) Banshees.

2. Who, in the procession, "exhibited such energy as was seen in the gait and air"?
(a) Chillingworth.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Pearl.

3. Where is the ship the Spanish Main sailing?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Bristol.
(c) Boston.
(d) Barcelona.

4. Despite his triumph in delivering the sermon in Chapter 23, how does Dimmesdale appear?
(a) "Wanton and wan."
(b) "Delicate and forlorn."
(c) "Hale and hearty."
(d) "Feeble and pale."

5. In Chapter 19, how does Dimmesdale say Pearl looks?
(a) "Strangely familiar."
(b) "Uncannily strange."
(c) "Uncannily adorable."
(d) "Strangely beautiful."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Dimmesdale learns that he is preach what important sermon?

3. Next to whom is Hester Prynne eventually buried?

4. Dimmesdale claims that his scarlet letter burns how?

5. What is the title of Chapter 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why will Hester and Dimmesdale have to head back to Europe, instead of moving somewhere more rural or remote?

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

3. Describe the three suspected causes of the "A" carved into Dimmesdale's chest.

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

5. How does Pearl decorate herself at the end of Chapter 18 differently from how she did in the woods when Hester met Chillingworth?

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

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

8. In Chapter 13, Hawthorne says that some people would think that Hester's scarlet letter stands for "Able." Why?

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

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

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