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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where was Reverend Dimmesdale trained in religion?
2. 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"?
3. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?
4. What distinguishes the men in the "throng" at the beginning of thChapter 1?
5. By what moniker does Hawthorne name the Custom-House building itself?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hawthorne promise to "alter or expunge"?
2. Why does Hawthorne decide to republish the offending introduction?
3. Of all the finery in the governor's mansion, what does Pearl cry for most of all?
4. Why does Hawthorne say that it is ironic that Pearl is such a beautiful child, in Chapter 6?
5. What happens to Hester when the jailer introduces Chillingworth?
6. When Hester delivers gloves to the governor, what is the other reason for her going there?
7. Describe what Hawthorne's narrator thinks of Reverend Dimmesdale's voice.
8. What are some examples of Chillingworth's growing power over Dimmesdale?
9. Describe the setting Hawthorne describes of the busy wharf.
10. What does Hester refuse to do during this chapter 3, despite pressure from her neighbors?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Hypocrisy emerges as a major theme of this book. Pick a set of examples (such as one or two of the major characters, or specific chapters/settings/events) that demonstrate the forms of hypocrisy Hawthorne saw in Puritan life, and write an essay that explains them in terms of Hawthorne's criticism of such hypocrisy.
Essay Topic 2
One theme of this novel is the competition between science and medicine on the one hand and religion on the other, particularly in terms of someone's physical well-being. Write an essay that describes the theme of sickness, health, and wellness (in terms of both the physical as well as the emotional/mental) that takes into account Hawthorne's dramatizing of a competition between science and medicine.
Essay Topic 3
Hawthorne's preface to this novel claims that he has gotten himself in trouble for an unflattering portrait of the Customs Inspector, yet nonetheless, the novel features many real historical people anyway. Take up one of these real historical persons (for example, Governor Bellingham or Mistress Hibbins) and offer a descriptive analysis of their role in the narrative. How does Hawthorne characterize these real historical people? To what dramatic purposes or fictional ends does he put them alongside the invented characters? Be sure to consider the role these minor characters play in the historical setting of this novel.
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