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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Seashell.
(c) Wood.
(d) Iron.

2. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
(a) The governor's servants.
(b) The governor's wife.
(c) The governor himself.
(d) The governor's daughter.

3. What adjective best characterizes the governor's house?
(a) Cramped.
(b) Baroque.
(c) Opulent.
(d) Plain.

4. How many years have passed so far in this novel, in Chapter 13?
(a) Three.
(b) Less than one.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eleven.

5. Chose which of the following best describes the tone in the last sentence of Chapter 1?
(a) Bright.
(b) Ambivalent.
(c) Somber.
(d) Sunny.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which description does not apply to Dimmesdale?

2. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?

3. How many years after the founding of Boston does Chapter 1 take place?

4. Hester is a self-ordained what?

5. What is the shape of the hats worn in the "throng"?

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