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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. John Wilson is described as having what relationship to Dimmesdale?
(a) One of his mystical mates.
(b) One of his clerical brethern.
(c) One of his holy fathers.
(d) One of his fatherly teachers.

2. What group of people leads the procession referred to in the title of Chapter 22?
(a) The soldiers.
(b) The clergy.
(c) The musicians.
(d) The public officials.

3. Which of the following is NOT an explanation for Dimmesdale's "red stigma"?
(a) Hester put it there.
(b) Chillingworth did it.
(c) The minister did it to himself.
(d) God did it.

4. Who, according to the narrator, is at the "head of the social system" in Puritan times?
(a) Governors.
(b) Witches.
(c) Clergy.
(d) Doctors.

5. Who inherited money and property from Chillingworth?
(a) The church.
(b) Hester.
(c) His biological children.
(d) Pearl.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dimmesdale been doing to himself?

2. Dimmesdale's voice is compared to what natural phenomenon in Chapter 23?

3. What is Dimmesdale's "own red stigma"?

4. How does the narrator characterize Dimmesdale's sermon?

5. What metal is the previously mentioned book and pen associated with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hawthorne describe Dimmesdale, either physically or emotionally, at the beginning of Chapter 13?

2. Why does Hester's heart sink when she sees Dimmesdale in the procession during the public holiday?

3. Why, at the end of the book, is Hester making a baby garment?

4. According to the narrator, what appeared to be Dimmesdale's subject, in his sermon in Chapter 23?

5. In Chapter 15, when Pearl asks Hester what the letter stands for, what does Hester reply?

6. In Chapter 14, what does Hester ask of Chillingworth?

7. Where does Dimmesdale go at the beginning of Chapter 12, and why?

8. Why does Hester go to meet Dimmesdale in the woods?

9. When Dimmesdale refuses to travel and quit his post as minister, how does Hester change his mind?

10. How does Pearl decorate herself at the end of Chapter 18 differently from how she did in the woods when Hester met Chillingworth?

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