This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 11 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What word means not following a fixed or regular pattern? A) Compliance. B) Fortitude. C) Undertone. D) Erratic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Erratic. 2. The garden was full of luxuriant flowers and plants. What does the word 'luxuriant' mean? A) Causing sadness, pain, or distress. B) Growing thick and full. C) Well-known and respected for being important. D) The clothes that someone wears. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growing thick and full. 3. According to the author, new settlements in the colony must establish a ..... and a prison. A) Church. B) General store. C) Cemetery. D) School. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cemetery. 4. What word means to interfere or get involved, often unwanted? A) Eloquent. B) Temperament. C) Meddle. D) Momentous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meddle. 5. The movie's tragic ending evoked a strong sense of pathos in the audience. What does the word 'pathos' mean? A) Very bold or daring, not afraid. B) Lost in thought and not paying attention. C) Strong feeling of sadness or sympathy. D) A hidden feeling or message. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strong feeling of sadness or sympathy. 6. Where has Hester's husband been for the past 2 years? A) He abandoned her. B) He stayed back home. C) He was traveling the world. D) He was kidnapped by Native Americans (Indians). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He was kidnapped by Native Americans (Indians). 7. The dark clouds in the sky suggested an ..... storm. A) Contemporary. B) Sojourn. C) Discourse. D) Impending. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impending. 8. She used ..... to deceive her friends. A) Stupefy. B) Blasphemy. C) Antiquity. D) Duplicity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duplicity. 9. They engaged in a heated ..... ball volley. A) Blasphemy. B) Volley. C) Pithy. D) Inferior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volley. 10. How has Chillingworth changed? A) He has become uglier. B) He has become powerful. C) He has become beautiful. D) He has become gaunt. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He has become uglier. 11. Purify means ..... A) To make something dirty. B) To make something new. C) To make something clean. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make something clean. 12. What is the definition of 'avenge'? A) To create or put together something. B) Relating to the mother or motherhood. C) To make someone believe something false. D) To get revenge for someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To get revenge for someone or something. 13. What was the name of Hester's husband? A) Dimmesdale. B) Mr. Wilson. C) Priest. D) Prynne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prynne. 14. What is the definition of 'intrinsic'? A) A written account of events in order. B) Part of something, belonging to it. C) Having a pale or washed-out color. D) Planned or thought about beforehand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Part of something, belonging to it. 15. The doctor is her husband who gives them medicine to feel better. Does Hester initially take the medicine? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 16. What is the definition of 'opportune'? A) A way of appearing or pretending. B) Feeling sorry or regretful for wrongdoing. C) Happening at just the right time. D) The act of becoming an official religious leader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Happening at just the right time. 17. What does Pearl do after Dimmesdale says that Hester should get to keep Pearl? A) Laid her cheek against his hand. B) Kissed his forehead. C) Threw a rose at him. D) Smiled at him. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laid her cheek against his hand. 18. What is unusual about the man's shoulder? A) They are too high for his body. B) He has a bum shoulder. C) One is lower than the other. D) He has no shoulders at all. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One is lower than the other. 19. What word means having a dark or gloomy interest? A) Guise. B) Morbid. C) Penitent. D) Imbibe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Morbid. 20. What is the definition of 'ministrations'? A) To move in a wavy pattern. B) A hidden feeling or message. C) Taking care of someone's needs or problems. D) A government where people vote and make decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taking care of someone's needs or problems. 21. What major event occurs in Chapter 4 of The Scarlet Letter? A) Hester Prynne standing on the scaffold with her baby, Pearl. B) Hester Prynne being banished from the town. C) Hester Prynne revealing the identity of Pearl's father. D) Hester Prynne being arrested for adultery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hester Prynne standing on the scaffold with her baby, Pearl. 22. Characteristic of infants; babyish A) Whim. B) Cabalistic. C) Intrinsic. D) Infantile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infantile. 23. What does Dimmesdale do to punish himself? A) Whip himself, take icy baths, and fast. B) Fast, whip himself, and stop preaching. C) Take icy baths, whip himself, and hold vigils. D) Whip himself, fast, hold vigils. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whip himself, fast, hold vigils. 24. MLA formatted papers should be double spaced. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. What word means to ask or beg someone earnestly? A) Stifle. B) Beseech. C) Denounce. D) Prophecy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beseech. 26. Who does Hester encounter in Chapter 15 of The Scarlet Letter? A) Governor Bellingham. B) Pearl. C) Roger Chillingworth. D) Arthur Dimmesdale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Roger Chillingworth. 27. True or False:In Chatper 18, we read that Hester and Pearl will go to England with Dimmesdale. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 28. "There will be merry company in the forest. I told the Devil that Hester would be there!" A) Reverend Wilson. B) Pearl. C) Dr. Chillingworth. D) Miss Hibbins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miss Hibbins. 29. For the first time in the entire novel, Dimmesdale calls himself a: A) Liar. B) Thief (of Hester's heart). C) Hypocrite. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypocrite. 30. What is Hester's last name meant to rhyme with? A) Beauty. B) Sin. C) Lying. D) Birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sin. 31. Immoral or grossly unfair behavior. A) Iniquity. B) Portends. C) Antipathy. D) Semblance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iniquity. 32. What sin did Hester Prynne commit? A) Lechery. B) Lycanthropy. C) Adultery. D) Lying tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adultery. 33. What is the definition of 'despondent'? A) Feeling very sad, discouraged, or hopeless. B) Feeling limited or restricted in some way. C) Able to be understood or heard. D) A question or request for information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling very sad, discouraged, or hopeless. 34. What word means disgusting and makes you want to stay away? A) Negative. B) Acquiesce. C) Conform. D) Repulsive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repulsive. 35. A wooden platform in the middle of town where people are publicly humiliated. A) The balcony. B) The guillotine. C) The stocks. D) The scaffold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The scaffold. 36. The speaker delivered a profound message that resonated with the audience. What does the word 'profound' mean? A) To ask for something very politely. B) Something you do often or regularly. C) Very deep and meaningful. D) Extremely evil or wicked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very deep and meaningful. 37. How did the people's perception of Hester change? A) They feared her. B) They respected her. C) They disliked her. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They respected her. 38. What word means to claim or declare something openly? A) Profess. B) Apparition. C) Shrewd. D) Reprove. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Profess. 39. Before this ugly edifice ..... was a grass plot. Here the word edifice means A) Facial feature. B) Cliff. C) Tomb. D) Large building. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Large building. 40. According to Hawthorne, what must every new settlement establish at the outset in addition to a cemetery? A) An orphanage. B) A place of execution. C) A prison. D) A town hall. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A prison. 41. Improper, inappropriate behavior A) Impropriety. B) Machination. C) Gentility. D) Lurid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impropriety. 42. What happened to Hester when she would go out in public after her release from prison? A) Clergymen preached about her sin as she passed on the street. B) Children called her names. C) People stared at her. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 43. Which character said, "I felt no love nor feigned any" ? A) Hester. B) Governor Bellingham. C) Chillingworth. D) Dimmesdale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hester. 44. What happened to Roger Chllingworth? A) He disappeared. B) He gave up being a doctor and became a preacher. C) He died within a year, leaving his property to Pearl. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He died within a year, leaving his property to Pearl. 45. She was determined to ..... the conflict peacefully. A) Intelligible. B) Deceive. C) Resolve. D) Capricious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolve. 46. What news does Hester find out about in the marketplace which destroys her plan with Dimmesdale. A) Chillingworth has booked the same boat to Boston. B) Chillingworth is blackmailing Dimmesdale to stay. C) Chillingworth has openly threatened Dimmesdale's life. D) Hester hears nothing and the plans are a go. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chillingworth has booked the same boat to Boston. 47. True or False:Chillingworh told the truth about Hester and Dimmsdale in the scaffold A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 48. The erratic behavior of the driver made the passengers nervous. What does the word 'erratic' mean? A) A strong and violent storm with wind. B) Very bold or daring, not afraid. C) Not following a fixed or regular pattern. D) Taking care of someone's needs or problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not following a fixed or regular pattern. 49. What was Hester's reaction to how Dimmesdale's looked? A) She was shocked. B) She was very happy. C) She started laughing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was shocked. 50. The piece of vegetation growing outside the prison door: A) Murdock. B) Pigweed. C) Thorns. D) Rose Bush. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rose Bush. 51. What is the definition of 'recur'? A) To tell someone they did something wrong. B) To happen again or repeatedly. C) Being very close to something. D) Real or genuine, not fake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To happen again or repeatedly. 52. She is known for her kindness, which is a highly valued ..... A) Reflections. B) Mortal. C) Earnest. D) Attribute. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attribute. 53. True or False:Hester's husband was many years older than she was. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. She sat at her desk, ready to compose a beautiful piece of music. What does the word 'compose' mean? A) A place where an animal lives. B) To stop or calm something down. C) To create or put together something. D) Someone who does something bad or wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To create or put together something. 55. Pearl's temperament could be described as: A) Passionate and wild. B) Solemn and obedient. C) Helpful and pious. D) Kind and appeasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Passionate and wild. 56. True or False:Robert said to Mr. Dimmsdale that he was Hester's husband A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 57. What job is Hester not allowed to do because she is guilty of committing adultery? A) Sew clothes for church members. B) Sew clothes for babies. C) Sew clothes for funerals. D) Sew clothes for weddings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sew clothes for weddings. 58. She sat at her desk, ready to ..... a beautiful piece of music. A) Compose. B) Inquest. C) Unrequited. D) Enjoin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compose. 59. Reverend didn't have the courage to stand withHester and Pearl and accept them publicly. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. The church stood as a hallowed place of worship. What does the word 'hallowed' mean? A) The highest or greatest level of something. B) Respected or honored as special or sacred. 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