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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the "delicate gems" referred to at the end of Chapter 1?
(a) The ladies in the crowd.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Hester's pearl necklace.
(d) The spikes on the door to the jail.

2. Hawthorne surmises that if there were a Papist in the crowd, whom would Hester remind him of?
(a) The Virgin Mary.
(b) The pope.
(c) Mother Theresa.
(d) Mary Magdalene.

3. Who is NOT among the crowd shaming Hester?
(a) The governor.
(b) Hester's pastor.
(c) The judges.
(d) Hester's parents.

4. What color is Hester's hair?
(a) Blond.
(b) Red.
(c) Dark.
(d) Gray.

5. Whose widow is Mistress Hibbins?
(a) The magistrate's.
(b) The governor's.
(c) The minister's.
(d) The narrator's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Salem is characterized currently as....?

2. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?

3. From which city is this preface written?

4. How does Hawthorne describe the historic Salem of years ago?

5. What does Hawthorne find in a "mysterious package" in the Custom-House?

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