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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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"?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Hester.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Pearl.

2. What is the shape of the hats worn in the "throng"?
(a) Pillbox.
(b) Steeple.
(c) Derby.
(d) Cone.

3. When the doctor gives Hester something to drink, what does she think is in the cup?
(a) A truth serum.
(b) Wine.
(c) Water.
(d) Poison.

4. Who is the patient referred to in the title of Chapter 10?
(a) Leech.
(b) Dimmesdale.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Bellingham.

5. Which character says, ironically, "why should a wretched man, guilty, we will say, of murder, prefer to keep the dead corpse buried in his own heart, rather than fling it forth at once"?
(a) Hester.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Wilson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quiets Pearl in this when she wants something from the governor's garden?

2. What are the "delicate gems" referred to at the end of Chapter 1?

3. What distinguishes the men in the "throng" at the beginning of thChapter 1?

4. Hester is a self-ordained what?

5. Whom does Hester decide to seek out for a meeting at the end of Chapter 13?

(see the answer key)

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