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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 4, "The Interview," refers to the meeting between which two characters?
(a) Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.
(b) Hester and Dimmesdale.
(c) Chillingworth and Bellingham.
(d) Hester and Chillingworth.

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

3. Where was Reverend Dimmesdale trained in religion?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Oxford.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Princeton.

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

5. When Pearl repeatedly asks Hester what the letter stand for, what does Hester tell her in Chapter 15?
(a) She does not give an answer.
(b) She says it stands for Able.
(c) She says it stands for Adultry
(d) She says it is a witch's mark.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

3. What street runs outside the Custom-House?

4. How does Hester dress her daughter?

5. What symbol of the United States hands in front of the Custom-House?

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