This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. According to the text, Pearl did not respond to her mother's: A) Ideas. B) Questions. C) Voice. D) Discipline. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discipline. 2. After her release from jail, Hester stays in town bc: A) To face her punishment and cleanse her soul. B) To punish her baby's father. C) To make her husband suffer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To face her punishment and cleanse her soul. 3. To what literary era does The Scarlet Letter belong? A) Modernism. B) Post-Modernism. C) Transcendentalism. D) Romanticism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Romanticism. 4. According to the text Dimmesdale delivers the most powerful sermons on sin. A) No change. B) Text, Dimmesdale. C) Text; Dimmsdale. D) , the most,. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Text, Dimmesdale. 5. What item does Reverend Dimmesdale drop while standing on the scaffold at night? A) His shoe. B) His glove. C) His handkerchief. D) His jacket. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His glove. 6. The panel engaged in a lively colloquy about the future of artificial intelligence. What does the word 'colloquy' mean? A) Distance north or south of the equator. B) A person, animal, or plant that lives in a particular place. C) Curious, wanting to ask questions. D) A conversation or discussion between people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A conversation or discussion between people. 7. The vibrant autumn foliage painted a picturesque scene. What does the word 'foliage' mean? A) The leaves of a plant or tree. B) A person who is very poor. C) Something that is not positive. D) A poet or singer in ancient times. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The leaves of a plant or tree. 8. What word means looking at something very closely and carefully? A) Scrutiny. B) Vengeance. C) Unrequited. D) Compose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scrutiny. 9. How did Chillingworth find out the secret that Dimmesdale was Hester's lover? A) He convinced Dimmesdale to trust him with what was bothering him. B) They saw Hester and Pearl outside the window and Dimmesdale broke down. C) He looked at Dimmesdale's chest while he was sleeping and found an 'A'. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He looked at Dimmesdale's chest while he was sleeping and found an 'A'. 10. (pg. 189) What does Hester ask Pearl to bring her? A) The scarlet letter. B) Some flowers. C) A rose. D) A rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The scarlet letter. 11. A great number of people gathered together; crowdto crowd or flock in great numbers A) Scourge. B) Throng. C) Inference. D) Betoken. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Throng. 12. What word means to express disapproval or disappointment? A) Reproach. B) Reciprocate. C) Devise. D) Waver. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reproach. 13. Because Dimmesdale wants to reveal his secret but does not he begins to see visions. A) No change. B) Secret, but. C) Not, he. D) Reveal, his. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not, he. 14. While the Custom House introduction is set in these years, The Scarlet Letter is set in these years. A) 1600s; 1400s. B) 1700s; 1500s. C) 1800s; 1600s. D) 1900s; 1700s. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1800s; 1600s. 15. (Pg. 191) Pearl eventually shows favor toward Master Dimmesdale. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. What are Hester's two realities? A) Fear and hate. B) Infant and shame. C) No husband and insecure. D) Friendless and lonely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infant and shame. 17. Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; designed to impress or attract notice. A) Plausibility. B) Iniquity. C) Semblance. D) Ostentatious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ostentatious. 18. In this same conversation, Hester vows to Chillingworth that she will: A) Rate him out to the magistrates. B) See him dead. C) Tell Dimmesdale who Chillingworth really is. D) Never reveal his true identity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tell Dimmesdale who Chillingworth really is. 19. "Throughout them all, giving up her individuality, she would become the general symbol at which they might vivify and embody their images of woman's frailty and sinful passion." Which of the following best defines vivify? A) Give life to. B) Ignore completely. C) Acknowledge. D) Discourage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Give life to. 20. Which two physical structures first help the reader to understand the setting, the mood, and a theme of the novel? A) Courtyard and Scaffold. B) Church and Shipyard. C) Schoolhouse and Barn. D) Cemetery and Prison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cemetery and Prison. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesClassics QuizzesThe Scarlet Letter Quiz 1The Scarlet Letter Quiz 2The Scarlet Letter Quiz 3The Scarlet Letter Quiz 4The Scarlet Letter Quiz 5The Scarlet Letter Quiz 6The Scarlet Letter Quiz 7The Scarlet Letter Quiz 8The Scarlet Letter Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books