This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We have made great progress in our project, but there is still more work to be done. What does the word 'thus far' mean? A) Not straight or not lined up correctly. B) To keep trying even when it's difficult. C) A feeling that something bad might happen. D) Up until now. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Up until now. 2. To be a sign of warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen. A) Antipathy. B) Portends. C) Plausibility. D) Resolute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Portends. 3. What does Hester's husband do to indicate that he knows her and wants her to keep his identity secret? A) He winks at her. B) He puts his finger to his lips. C) He nods his head. D) He waves his hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He puts his finger to his lips. 4. What is the definition of 'bound'? A) A person who travels to a holy place. B) To burn or scorch something. C) To really, really hate something or someone. D) To tie or fasten something securely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To tie or fasten something securely. 5. What is the name of Hester's daughter? A) Daisy. B) Pearl. C) Rose. D) Lily. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pearl. 6. The mischievous child plotted a prank on his older sister. What does the word 'mischievous' mean? A) Thinking deeply or being thoughtful. B) Playful in a naughty or tricky way. C) Looking tired, worn out or exhausted. D) The rhythm or beat of music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Playful in a naughty or tricky way. 7. What word means to go together with someone or something? A) Compose. B) Accompany. C) Dwell. D) Accord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accompany. 8. Reverend Dimmesdale makes a sincere and passionate plea for Hester to reveal the name of her "partner in sin" . This is an example of which literary device? A) Irony. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 9. ..... was Hester's punishment for her sins? A) Who. B) What. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What. 10. She preached the ..... of love and forgiveness to the masses. A) Antiquity. B) Gratuitous. C) Pithy. D) Gospel. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gospel. 11. The country embraced ..... and held free elections. A) Audacious. B) Democracy. C) Undertone. D) Desolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Democracy. 12. What does Dimmesdale's guilt represent in Chapter 17 of The Scarlet Letter? A) Inner turmoil and the weight of his secret sin. B) Indifference and apathy towards his sin. C) Acceptance and forgiveness from society. D) Relief and freedom from guilt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inner turmoil and the weight of his secret sin. 13. What did the A on Hester's dress look like? A) Dark and somber gray. B) Solid black. C) Blue with red trim. D) Red with gold trim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red with gold trim. 14. What is the definition of 'bind'? A) To tie or fasten something together. B) Future generations or descendants of someone. C) A feeling of guilt or hesitation about something. D) Feeling very surprised or worried. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To tie or fasten something together. 15. The severe self-discipline of the monk can be considered ..... A) Iniquity. B) Penitence. C) Paramour. D) Meagre. E) Lurid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penitence. 16. While standing on the scaffold, Hester daydreamed about all of the following EXCEPT: A) Herself as a girl. B) Her parents. C) Her brother. D) Her old home. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Her brother. 17. They had a secret relationship and met in secret as paramours often do. What does the word 'paramour' mean? A) To give someone a special honor. B) Someone's special romantic partner or sweetheart. C) Pretending or making something up. D) A strong band that connects bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Someone's special romantic partner or sweetheart. 18. She tried to ..... him with her clever disguise. A) Nurture. B) Deceive. C) Wrath. D) Inexplicable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deceive. 19. Her subtle gesture conveyed more than words ever could. What does the word 'subtle' mean? A) The bouncing back of light or sound. B) To show sincere and serious intent. C) Very small or not easy to notice. D) To go together with someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very small or not easy to notice. 20. What word means to turn a liquid into a gas? A) Distill. B) Opportune. C) Intangible. D) Guise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distill. 21. What is the definition of 'estrange'? A) To tie or fasten something tightly. B) To feel separated or distant from someone or something. C) To move back suddenly after being pushed. D) Adjacent or touching one another in space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To feel separated or distant from someone or something. 22. Why do they want to take her away? A) They want to protect her from the judgmental society. B) They seek to provide her with better opportunities. C) They say she is an unfit mom due to her affair. D) They recognize her potential to inspire positive change. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They say she is an unfit mom due to her affair. 23. She has a ..... eye for quality and can easily distinguish between genuine and fake products. A) Discerning. B) Eloquent. C) Sage. D) Momentous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discerning. 24. Where do Hester and Pearl live? A) In a cottage on the outskirts of town. B) With Mistress Hibbins, because Hester sews so often for her. C) In Boston, in a small house. D) On the street, because Hester cannot support herself. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a cottage on the outskirts of town. 25. What word means the time when a king or queen rules? A) Accord. B) Reprove. C) Hallowed. D) Reign. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reign. 26. MLA reports use which font? A) Calipers. B) Courier New. C) Times New Roman. D) Arial. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Times New Roman. 27. What's the scarlet letter represented originally? A) Able. B) Angel. C) Adulterer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adulterer. 28. How old is Hester's baby? A) 1 year. B) 1 month. C) 3 months. D) 3 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3 months. 29. What discovery does Chillingsworth make while Dimmesdale is asleep? A) Something strange is on Dimmesdale's chest. B) Dimmesdale keeps a hidden journal with all of his secrets. C) Dimmesdale talks in his sleep and reveals a hidden sin. D) Chillingsworth discovers a stash of Dimmesdale's money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Something strange is on Dimmesdale's chest. 30. Which of the following is not a way in which Dimmesdale punishes himself for his sin? A) He whips himself. B) He goes without food. C) He refuses to leave his parish. D) He stays up late into the night. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He refuses to leave his parish. 31. What is the definition of 'cordial'? A) A friendly and warm greeting or attitude. B) Being very special and important. C) Very knowledgeable and smart. D) Perfect example or model to follow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A friendly and warm greeting or attitude. 32. She is a ..... thinker, always seeking new ways to improve the world. A) Progressive. B) Desolate. C) Compassion. D) Abstracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Progressive. 33. Aside from whipping himself, how else does Dimmesdale attempt to purify himself? A) Fasting. B) Praying. C) Confessing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fasting. 34. What makes Hester so worried about her daughter A) How quick shes growing up. B) Shes afraid she'll be taken. C) She'll be forgotten. D) Shes not worried. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shes afraid she'll be taken. 35. The ..... heat made it difficult to concentrate. A) Infernal. B) Impending. C) Sojourn. D) Secluded. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infernal. 36. Who is described as being tall, with abundant hair, richness of complexion, and deep black eyes? A) Townbeadle. B) Ann Hutchinson. C) Hester Prynne. D) Elizabethan women. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hester Prynne. 37. Their problems were inextricable from one another, making it difficult to find a solution. What does the word 'inextricable' mean? A) A feeling that something bad might happen. B) Not enough or very little. C) Not straight or not lined up correctly. D) Impossible to separate or untangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impossible to separate or untangle. 38. What is the name for a government building where taxes and port fees are levied? A) Custom House. B) House of Sadness. C) Tax House. D) Government House. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Custom House. 39. What word means a large, important building or structure? A) Establish. B) Subtle. C) Edifice. D) Attribute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Edifice. 40. What were people beginning to think of Hester? A) They were beginning to recognize her as a person instead of as just a sinner. B) They were beginning to think she was "born bad.". C) They were beginning to suspect that she had had an affair with Rev. Dimmesdale. D) They were beginning to think she was a witch as well as a sinner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They were beginning to recognize her as a person instead of as just a sinner. 41. She made a conjecture about the outcome of the experiment. What does the word 'conjecture' mean? A) To guess or make an educated guess. B) A bright streak of light in the sky. C) A short trip or outing for fun. D) Not enough or very little. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To guess or make an educated guess. 42. An old woman; grandmother A) Big. B) Steed. C) Antiquity. D) Spectre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Big. 43. When asked who made thee, Pearl's response was ..... A) I was Plucked from the Rosebush. B) My Earthly Father. C) The Heavenly Father. D) My Mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I was Plucked from the Rosebush. 44. Hester and Pearl go to the forest to A) Pray and enjoy nature's solitude. B) Meet with the Black Man and receive his mark. C) Find Reverend Dimmesdale. D) Speak with Roger Chillingworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Find Reverend Dimmesdale. 45. The examination of one's own mental and emotional state A) Gild. B) Introspection. C) Requite. D) Steed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Introspection. 46. "The poor, as we have already said, whom she sought out to be the objects of her bounty, often reviled the hand that was stretched forth to succor them." Which of the following best defines reviled? A) Denounce, scold. B) Ignore her talent as a seamstress. C) Forgive, give another chance. D) Praise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denounce, scold. 47. When Hester first stands on the scaffold, she- A) Refuses to name the father of her baby. B) Criticizes the people who mock her. C) Fails to bow to the governor. D) Denies being involved in witchcraft. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refuses to name the father of her baby. 48. When does Chillingworth promise that he won't take the life of Pearl's father? A) After he learns that Pearl's father is already dead. B) After he makes Hester first promise not to reveal his identity. C) After he finds out that he is Pearl's uncle. D) After he receives a bribe from Governor Bellingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) After he makes Hester first promise not to reveal his identity. 49. What is the definition of 'intangible'? A) Very gross or disgusting. B) Something you can't touch or see. C) To drink or take in liquid. D) To burn or scorch something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Something you can't touch or see. 50. She asked her brother to ..... her to the concert. A) Compose. B) Accompany. C) Attribute. D) Compose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Accompany. 51. When they enter the governor's home, Pearl becomes mesmerized by A) The adults. B) A suit of armor. C) Her blue dress. D) The servant's child. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A suit of armor. 52. What is Hester's sin A) Abandonment. B) Adultery. C) Archery. D) Idolitery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adultery. 53. What is the definition of 'ignominious'? A) To live or stay in a place. B) Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. C) To live or stay in a place. D) To create or make something (such as music or a story). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame. 54. (pg. 188) Why is Hester so frustrated with Pearl? A) Pearl will not sing Hester's requested song. B) Pearl will not cross the brook to meet with her parents again. C) Pearl is not wearing her floaties and may drown in the brook. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pearl will not cross the brook to meet with her parents again. 55. What word means respected and admired because of old age? A) Compose. B) Venerable. C) Attribute. D) Dwell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Venerable. 56. The art of divination through communication with the dead; witchcraft A) Necromancy. B) Narcolepsy. C) Voodoo. D) Morbid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Necromancy. 57. Starting in chapter nine, this character becomes "thin and pale because of a strange illness, causing people to praise him as a saint" . A) Chillingsworth. B) Dimmesdale. C) Reverend Bowens. D) Governor Billingsworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dimmesdale. 58. Did people like Hawthorne's books at that time? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 59. What would be Hester's only "monument" ? A) Infamy. B) Pearl. C) Her good will. D) Love. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infamy. 60. What colors does she match her dresses with? A) She opts for neutral tones symbolizing her resilience. B) She wears a variety of colors to reflect her mood. C) She often uses the colors of the Scarlet letter. D) She prefers vibrant colors inspired by nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She often uses the colors of the Scarlet letter. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesClassics QuizzesEnglish Literature 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 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books