This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 20 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What natural phenomenon occurs in Ch. 12? A) Nothing special. B) Lightning strikes the scaffold. C) Thunder shakes Boston. D) A meteor burning in the atmosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A meteor burning in the atmosphere. 2. The waves ..... gracefully on the surface of the ocean. A) Pathos. B) Undulate. C) Undertone. D) Sovereign. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Undulate. 3. Pearl's playmate(s) is/are: A) Those things which she can create through simple materials and her imagination. B) The neighbor children. C) An imaginary friend named Harvey. D) Reverend Dimmesdale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Those things which she can create through simple materials and her imagination. 4. One who violates a rule or law A) Betoken. B) Augured. C) Transgressor. D) Magistrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transgressor. 5. On which date was the author born? A) July 4, 1776. B) December 25, 1774. C) July 4, 1804. D) December 25, 1802. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) July 4, 1804. 6. To alienate the affections of A) Cadence. B) Estranged. C) Subjugate. D) Mollify. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Estranged. 7. The fireworks display was absolutely scintillating. What does the word 'scintillating' mean? A) To sparkle or shine brightly with light. B) Thinking deeply or being thoughtful. C) The most important or most common. D) Looking tired, worn out or exhausted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To sparkle or shine brightly with light. 8. How did Chillingworth represent a leech? A) He fed off of the Reverends blood. B) He fed off of Pearl's happiness. C) He fed off of guilt and suffering of the Reverend. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He fed off of guilt and suffering of the Reverend. 9. The teacher had to reprove the student for repeatedly disrupting the class. What does the word 'reprove' mean? A) To show or explain something with pictures. B) To tell someone they did something wrong. C) Extremely thin or skinny due to lack of food. D) Extreme wickedness or moral corruption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To tell someone they did something wrong. 10. The abandoned house stood ..... amidst the overgrown weeds. A) Abstracted. B) Desolate. C) Democracy. D) Undulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Desolate. 11. The baby's name has been revealed as Hope. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. What is the definition of 'inconsistent'? A) Ceremony where a king or queen is crowned. B) To tie or fasten something together. C) Not always the same or steady. D) To formally accuse someone of a crime. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not always the same or steady. 13. What physical action does Dimmesdale repeatedly do in this section of the novel? A) Place his hand over his chest. B) Grab his throat. C) Hit his head. D) Cry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Place his hand over his chest. 14. What is the definition of 'attribute'? A) An agreement or harmony between people. B) Very small or not easy to notice. C) A characteristic or quality of something. D) To go together with someone or something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A characteristic or quality of something. 15. What about DImmesdale causes the townspeople to worry about him? A) His inability to remember things. B) His deteriorating health. C) His frequent fainting spells. D) His nightmares. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His deteriorating health. 16. What is the definition of 'resolve'? A) Able to be understood or heard. B) To go somewhere together with someone. C) To bring out or call forth a feeling. D) To find a solution or make a decision. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To find a solution or make a decision. 17. How does Pearl behave in Chapter 10 and what does it reveal about her character? A) Pearl behaves with arrogance and rudeness, revealing her disrespectful character. B) Pearl behaves with curiosity and independence, revealing her adventurous and spirited character. C) Pearl behaves with laziness and apathy, revealing her indifferent character. D) Pearl behaves with fear and timidity, revealing her cowardly character. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pearl behaves with curiosity and independence, revealing her adventurous and spirited character. 18. What word means to show sincere and serious intent? A) Earnest. B) Obscure. C) Subtle. D) Mortal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earnest. 19. She felt despondent after receiving the rejection letter from her dream job. What does the word 'despondent' mean? A) Cannot be explained. B) Feeling very sad, discouraged, or hopeless. C) To find a solution or make a decision. D) To make something continue forever. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling very sad, discouraged, or hopeless. 20. What word means someone who does something bad or wrong? A) Perpetrator. B) Scrutiny. C) Quell. D) Postpone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perpetrator. 21. She was judged solely based on ..... , without ever being given a chance. A) Intuitive. B) Prejudice. C) Beseech. D) Denounce. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prejudice. 22. Which statement best describes the narrator's intention in telling Hester's story? A) He wants to set the record straight with a definitive account of events. B) He wants to sensationalize her story and make it a bestselling story. C) He wants to compose a work that, while not factually accurate, preserves the spirit of her story. D) He wants to prove to his family how great of an author he is. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He wants to compose a work that, while not factually accurate, preserves the spirit of her story. 23. True of False:Dimmesdale and Hester plan to escape Boston by taking passage on a Merchant ship to Europe. A) False tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 24. Dimmesdale is suffering pain in his chest due to his secret sin. A) Chest; due. B) Pain, in. C) Chest, due. D) No change. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No change. 25. How has Roger Chillingworth changed physically in the novel? A) He seems to have grown taller. B) He looks more and more demonic. C) He wears a kind expression on his face. D) He places his hand over his heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He looks more and more demonic. 26. The ..... traveler trudged wearily through the desert, longing for a moment of rest. A) Scintillating. B) Listless. C) Haggard. D) Predominant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haggard. 27. Which of the following is NOT true about Chillingworth? A) He is pretending to be a physician. B) He is Hester's husband. C) He is the secret father of the baby. D) He is intent on revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He is the secret father of the baby. 28. The ..... is typically found at the beginning of the story and includes the introduction to our characters. A) Falling Action. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exposition. 29. To infer; to predict; to guess A) Conjecture. B) Appellation. C) Estrange. D) Expound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjecture. 30. What does Dimmesdale's congregation think of him because he is so pale and sickly? A) They think he is a pitiful minister. B) They think he's saintly and kind. C) They think he's a horrible sinner. D) They think he's smart, but lame. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They think he's saintly and kind. 31. The mutable nature of the software allows users to customize it according to their preferences. What does the word 'mutable' mean? A) Able to be changed or altered. B) To find a solution or make a decision. C) Feeling very sad, discouraged, or hopeless. D) To care for and help something grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able to be changed or altered. 32. What word means looking inside your mind and feelings? A) Introspection. B) Abhor. C) Expel. D) Ethereal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Introspection. 33. The emotion Hester said she lacked during her marriage to Chillingworth. A) Anger. B) Excitement. C) Love. D) Fear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 34. The form of punishment that both Scripture and the statute book WOULD HAVE allowed for Hester? A) Jail. B) The letter "A". C) Death. D) Public shaming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 35. What word means very simple, serious, and without any luxuries? A) Undermine. B) Auspicious. C) Austere. D) Repulsive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Austere. 36. His ..... was unleashed upon those who had wronged him. A) Wrath. B) Correspond. C) Intelligible. D) Abyss. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrath. 37. What the character wants is ..... A) Character trait. B) Character's feelings. C) Character's relatives. D) Character's motivations. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Character's motivations. 38. What did Hester and Pearl see in the breastplate of the armor? A) Hester's "A". B) A grotesque devil. C) A reflection of the Bible. D) A crucifix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hester's "A". 39. What is the name of the Governor? A) Willson. B) Bellingham. C) Chillingworth. D) Dimmesdale. E) Hibbins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bellingham. 40. The ferocious ..... tore through the town, leaving destruction in its wake. A) Erratic. B) Tempest. C) Audacious. D) Democracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tempest. 41. Comfort in sorrow or distress, consolation A) Loquacity. B) Solace. C) Spectre. D) Choleric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solace. 42. She carefully ..... d of the hazardous waste in the designated containers. A) Inflexible. B) Dispose. C) Posterity. D) Metropolis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dispose. 43. What word means able to understand and make good choices? A) Discourse. B) Discerning. C) Impending. D) Heed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discerning. 44. What word means a place where an animal lives? A) Quell. B) Maternal. C) Habitat. D) Delude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Habitat. 45. How does Chillingworth become Dimmesdale's medical advisor? A) Chillingworth paid him because he needed a first patient. B) The church elders and deacons reminded Dimmesdale God wants him to be well. C) Hester arranged it so the two men she loves can meet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The church elders and deacons reminded Dimmesdale God wants him to be well. 46. Chillingworth dies when A) Relieves Hester loved Dimmesdale. B) He is captured by indians. C) He no longer able to seek revenge. D) He become ill in a plague. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He no longer able to seek revenge. 47. She felt ..... by the strict rules of the company. A) Resolve. B) Mutable. C) Reflection. D) Constrained. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Constrained. 48. She had feelings for him, but unfortunately, it was unrequited. What does the word 'unrequited' mean? A) To give someone a special honor. B) Looking at something very closely and carefully. C) Love that is not returned. D) Someone's special romantic partner or sweetheart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love that is not returned. 49. What is the definition of 'acquiesce'? A) Something that is not positive. B) To weaken or harm something secretly. C) A very deep and wide hole. D) To agree or go along with something. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To agree or go along with something. 50. Following the exchange at the governor's mansion, how does Pearl react to Dimmesdale? A) She reacts the same way as she did to the other men in the room:boldly. B) She reacts differently to him. She is soft and sweet towards him. C) She refuses to go near him just as she did with Rev. Wilson. D) She cries and points at Chillingworth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She reacts differently to him. She is soft and sweet towards him. 51. She sent a ..... to the customer service department to inquire about her order. A) Nurture. B) Gesticulate. C) Query. D) Evoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Query. 52. Where does Hester and her daughter live? A) In a condo in town. B) With Chillingworth. C) In a cottage outside of town. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In a cottage outside of town. 53. She sought vengeance against those who wronged her. What does the word 'vengeance' mean? A) To get revenge for someone or something. B) Getting back at someone who hurt you. C) To give someone a special honor. D) The ability to get desired results. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Getting back at someone who hurt you. 54. What word means happening or existing in the same time period? A) Infernal. B) Contemporary. C) Derive. D) Momentous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contemporary. 55. She added a touch of lavender to the warm bathwater for a calming infusion. What does the word 'infusion' mean? A) To behave or do things like others. B) Adding flavors or colors into liquid. C) To make it harder to do something. D) The leaves of a plant or tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adding flavors or colors into liquid. 56. What was the relationship between Hester and Roger Chillingworth? A) They were in love. B) They were divorced. C) They were married, but had not seen each other in years. D) They were just married. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were married, but had not seen each other in years. 57. What word means difficult to understand or comprehend? A) Abstruse. B) Doctrine. C) Attest. D) Abominable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abstruse. 58. In which period does the main action of The Scarlet Letter take place? A) 1642-1649. B) 1492-1499. C) 1850-1857. D) 1730-1739. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1492-1499. 59. How does the scarlet letter affect the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale? A) The scarlet letter has no impact on the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale. B) The scarlet letter strengthens the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale. C) The scarlet letter causes Hester and Dimmesdale to part ways permanently. D) The scarlet letter weakens the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale due to increased tension. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The scarlet letter strengthens the relationship between Hester and Dimmesdale. 60. What is the meaning of the word "inauspicious" that the narrator uses to describe the beginning of Hester Prynne's story in chapter 1? A) Tragic or sorrowful. B) Mysterious or secretive. C) Unlucky or unfavorable. D) Cruel or harsh. 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