The Scarlet Letter Quiz 117 (20 MCQs)

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1. What did Pearl make out of seaweed?

Correct Answer: B) A green letter A.

2. What word means asking questions to learn more information?

Correct Answer: C) Inquiry.

3. The ..... is the main character who changes in the story.

Correct Answer: B) Protagonist.

4. What is the definition of 'consecrate'?

Correct Answer: C) To make something sacred or special.

5. Where does Dimmesdale go and stand late one night?

Correct Answer: A) The scaffold.

6. The governor maintained a calm ..... or manner throughout the flood emergency.

Correct Answer: A) Demeanor.

7. JUTTING

Correct Answer: C) Extend out or beyond the main body or line of something.

8. Of what is Pearl a living embodiment?

Correct Answer: A) The letter.

9. Commanding; dominant

Correct Answer: A) Imperious.

10. The location of the dignitaries-the ministers, the magistrates, etc.-as Hester stands on the scaffold.

Correct Answer: C) On the balcony.

11. Where do Hester and Pearl move to?

Correct Answer: A) England.

12. What does Hester ask Dimmesdale to do for her in Chapter 8 of "The Scarlet Letter" ?

Correct Answer: C) Defend her in front of the council.

13. What does "odious" mean?

Correct Answer: C) Repulsive.

14. Hester's ..... was commiting adultery.

Correct Answer: A) Iniquity.

15. Wearing the scarlet letter A seems to giveHester the ability to-

Correct Answer: D) Recognize hidden sins of others.

16. To whom does Hawthorne apply the term "The Leech" ?

Correct Answer: D) Chillingworth.

17. Past maturity or the middle part of life

Correct Answer: A) Autumnal.

18. After Hester climbed the platform with Pearl, she .....

Correct Answer: D) Saw a face she recognized.

19. What is the definition of 'pauper'?

Correct Answer: A) A person who is very poor.

20. She stood on the edge of the precipice, contemplating her next move. What does the word 'precipice' mean?

Correct Answer: A) A very steep cliff or edge.