The Scarlet Letter Test

True or False: Chillingworth decides to publicly shame Dimmesdale

• a.True
• b.False

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What does Dimmesdale repeatedly resolve to do that he keeps postponing?

• a.Kidnap Pearl and leave town
• b.Kill himself
• c.Publicly confess his sin
• d.Tell Hester he loves her

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What is the congregation's opinion of Dimmesdale?

• a.He is going insane
• b.He has become untrustworthy
• c.He is a model of holiness
• d.His is a hypocrite

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What does Dimmesdale do when he climbs up on the scaffold in the dead of night?

• a.Prays
• b.Pulls out all of its nails
• c.Screams
• d.Hangs himself

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What natural phenomenon do Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl all observe together?

• a.An earthquake
• b.An eclipse
• c.A whirlwind
• d.A meteor

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What did Pearl ask Rev. Dimmesdale?

•  If he was her father  
  
•  If he was a brother to the devil 
•   If he would stand hand in hand with her and Hester on the scaffold 
• If he would help her mother make a better life for them

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What "sign" did the meteor make in the sky?

• A crucifix
• b. the letter "A"
• c. A frown
• d. A pitchfork

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What were people beginning to think of Hester?

• They were beginning to think she was a witch as well as a sinner.
  
• They were beginning to recognize her as a person instead of as just a sinner.
• They were beginning to think she was "born bad."
  
• They were beginning to suspect that she had had an affair with Rev. Dimmesdale.
  

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When did Dimmesdale say that he, Pearl, and Hester would stand together hand in hand?

• tomorrow
• judgement day
• next week
• never

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Chillingworth says things to remind Dimmesdale of

• How long he has bee a pastor
• He knows what is best for him
• His sin
• The fact that he is sick

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