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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street runs outside the Custom-House?
(a) Salem Road.
(b) Derby Street.
(c) Main Street.
(d) High Street.

2. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
(a) The schoolhouse.
(b) The governor's mansion.
(c) The cemetery.
(d) The church.

3. What is one of Chillingworth's distinguishing physical features?
(a) He is lame in his right leg.
(b) He is missing most of the toes on his left foot.
(c) His left eye droops.
(d) One of his shoulders is higher than the other.

4. How does Hawthorne describe the historic Salem of years ago?
(a) A bustling port.
(b) A sad sailing town.
(c) A dour harbor.
(d) A busy metropolis.

5. According to the narrator, what is the first thing that Pearl noticed, as a baby?
(a) Her own curls.
(b) Hester's long black hair.
(c) Seashells.
(d) The scarlet letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Hester when she and Pearl are examined by the doctor?

2. Who is Hester's legal husband?

3. Who is described as a/an "intolerant brood?"

4. Chose which of the following best describes the tone in the last sentence of Chapter 1?

5. To whom does this description refer: "a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb"?

(see the answer key)

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