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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the title of the first chapter?
(a) The Prison-Door.
(b) TheJail-Door.
(c) Gaol-Door Rock.
(d) The Prison Rose.
2. Salem is characterized currently as....?
(a) Bustling.
(b) Desolate.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Busy.
3. Which man in at the governor's argues that Hester should be allowed to keep Pearl?
(a) Dimmesdale.
(b) Chillingworth.
(c) Bellingham.
(d) Wilson.
4. Who is with the governor when Hester visits his house to deliver something?
(a) Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Hibbins.
(b) Lee, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale.
(c) Wilson, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth.
(d) Wilson and Dimmesdale.
5. Chillingworth has a degree from a university in which country?
(a) France.
(b) Germany.
(c) Italy.
(d) Holland.
Short Answer Questions
1. The earliest parts of the colony had been the jail and what other location?
2. The following description of clothing belongs to which community leader: "a dark feather in his hat, a border of embroidery on his cloak, and a black velvet tunic beneath"?
3. Which part of The Scarlet Letter does this preface specifically refer to?
4. Who is to wear the thing Hester is delivering to the governor's house?
5. Hawthorne writes of his surprise and what in the first lines of the preface?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Hawthorne say the purpose of the eagle is, which hangs in front of the building?
2. What does Hester refuse to do during this chapter 3, despite pressure from her neighbors?
3. How does Dimmesdale respond to his growing guilt? How does he punish himself?
4. What does Hawthorne find alongside the scarlet letter?
5. In Chapter 2, why might it be Mistress Hibbins who would be in the jail?
6. Describe what Hawthorne's narrator thinks of Reverend Dimmesdale's voice.
7. What does the governor think about Hester as a mother?
8. Why does Hawthorne say that it is ironic that Pearl is such a beautiful child, in Chapter 6?
9. What does Chillingworth implore Hester to do when they meet in the jail?
10. Why is "The Leech" an appropriate and significant name for this chapter?
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