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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The title of Chapter 5 refers to what?
(a) Hester's guilt.
(b) Hester's work.
(c) Hester's past.
(d) Hester's love life.

2. Which man in at the governor's argues that Hester should be allowed to keep Pearl?
(a) Wilson.
(b) Bellingham.
(c) Dimmesdale.
(d) Chillingworth.

3. Which character is described as having a "wildflower prettiness?"
(a) Pearl.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Hester.
(d) Hibbins.

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

5. Who is Hester's legal husband?
(a) Lee.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Chillingworth.
(d) Dimmesdale.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Hester exclaims "better he had died at once!," to whom is she referring in Chapter 14?

2. Why does Hawthorne refuse to change what he has written?

3. Which of the following creatures is not mentioned while Pearl plays on the shore?

4. Chapter 6 is named after which character?

5. Which character seeks to make him or herself "the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear"?

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