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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Salem is characterized currently as....?
(a) Dramatic.
(b) Busy.
(c) Bustling.
(d) Desolate.

3. What prominent wild plant grows just outside the door to the jail?
(a) A rose bush.
(b) Lilacs.
(c) A weeping willow.
(d) Dandelions.

4. What does Pearl do with sea weed?
(a) Wraps it about her head.
(b) Eats it.
(c) Spreads it along the beach.
(d) Lines her pockets with it.

5. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?
(a) Joy.
(b) Detriment.
(c) Amusement.
(d) Laughter.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the spikes on the door to the jail made of?

4. Whom does Dimmesdale set out to meet?

5. Who is said to ride "with Satan through the air?"

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