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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 7- Chapter 13: Zenobia's Legend and Chapter 14: Eliot's Pulpit.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Coverdale convinced that Hollingsworth will gain Zenobia and Priscilla as, in Section 4, Chapter 8?
(a) As girlfriends.
(b) As wives.
(c) As proselytes.
(d) As followers.

2. How is the atmosphere at the first dinner in the Blithedale farmhouse?
(a) Dull.
(b) Cheerful.
(c) Exciting.
(d) Oppressive.

3. In Section 6, Chapter 11, why does Coverdale stay in the vicinity of Zenobia's customary walk?
(a) So he can see who she is meeting with.
(b) So that he can watch her from behind the cover of the trees.
(c) So that he can assist her quickly if necessity dictates it to be so.
(d) So he will have a chance to talk to her.

4. In Section 6, Chapter 12, Coverdale watches Hollingsworth beckoning the others; what does he think Hollingsworth sees all of mankind as?
(a) Another pig in the pen.
(b) Another yoke of oxen.
(c) Another chicken in the coop.
(d) Another herd of cattle.

5. What does Priscilla do when Coverdale tells her that she is fortunate that she has nothing dismal to remember?
(a) She tells him she does have dismal things from her past.
(b) She seems to be listening to a distant voice.
(c) She tells him he does not know her at all.
(d) She smiles at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Mrs. Foster and her husband in charge of at Blithedale?

2. Why does Coverdale think that Priscilla deserves some poetry written about her?

3. In Zenobia's story about the Veiled Lady, who sneaks into the Lady's private chamber with the intent of unveiling her?

4. Where do Hollingsworth, Zenobia, Priscilla, and Coverdale often spend their Sundays?

5. Zenobia tells a story about the Veiled Lady; what is the story entitled?

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