This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 22 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of 'abhor'? A) To hate or detest something very much. B) To refuse or hesitate to do something. C) To make something dirty or impure. D) Difficult to understand or comprehend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To hate or detest something very much. 2. The main course will precede the dessert during the dinner party. What does the word 'precede' mean? A) To make up for a mistake. B) To come before in time or order. C) To figure out without being told. D) Having a reputation for being notorious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To come before in time or order. 3. What is the definition of 'fortitude'? A) Continuous improvement or advancement towards a goal. B) A hidden feeling or message. C) Strength and courage to face challenges. D) Empty, sad, and feeling very alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strength and courage to face challenges. 4. Done in a thoughtful manner. A) Antipathy. B) Pensively. C) Portends. D) Sagacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pensively. 5. What word means to show or make something clear? A) Infamy. B) Manifest. C) Elaborate. D) Infer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manifest. 6. What is the definition of 'democracy'? A) A ruler who has power and authority. B) A government where people vote and make decisions. C) Empty, sad, and feeling very alone. D) Strength and courage to face challenges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A government where people vote and make decisions. 7. It is important to ..... your relationships in order to maintain their growth and well-being. A) Despondent. B) Perpetuate. C) Nurture. D) Abyss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nurture. 8. Who is Hester's husband? A) Chillingworth. B) Dimmesdale. C) Willson. D) The Native American who enters the town. E) Bellingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chillingworth. 9. The ligament in her knee was torn during the game. What does the word 'ligament' mean? A) A strong band that connects bones. B) Getting back at someone who hurt you. C) Looking at something very closely and carefully. D) Someone who does something bad or wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A strong band that connects bones. 10. Identify the speaker: "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee." A) Roger Chillingworth. B) Mistress Hibbons. C) Arthur Dimmesdale. D) Hester Prynne. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hester Prynne. 11. Hester tries to convince Dimmesdale to do what during their walk in the woods? A) To run away and live elsewhere. B) To get rid of Chillingworth. C) To marry her. D) To adopt Pearl. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To run away and live elsewhere. 12. What is the definition of 'emaciated'? A) A ghost or a strange, unexpected sight. B) Happening without planning or preparation. C) Clever and smart in making decisions. D) Extremely thin or skinny due to lack of food. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extremely thin or skinny due to lack of food. 13. To make return for; repay A) Requite. B) Enshrined. C) Barter. D) Probity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Requite. 14. All of these are examples of a leech EXCEPT: A) Someone who mooches rides from you without reciprocating. B) A blood sucking animal. C) Someone who takes advice but never gives any. D) A person who offers to buy you dinner after you drive them home. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A person who offers to buy you dinner after you drive them home. 15. It was a ..... occasion when she received her college acceptance letter. A) Meddle. B) Temperament. C) Momentous. D) Secluded. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Momentous. 16. What is the definition of 'defile'? A) A special ceremony to welcome into religion. B) To make something dirty or impure. C) Something that is hidden or undeveloped. D) A feeling that something will happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make something dirty or impure. 17. What is the definition of 'infusion'? A) Very simple, serious, and without any luxuries. B) A poisonous substance produced by animals. C) Adding flavors or colors into liquid. D) A really bad and disastrous event. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adding flavors or colors into liquid. 18. The two countries reached an accord on trade agreements. What does the word 'accord' mean? A) To live or stay in a place. B) A characteristic or quality of something. C) Changed to fit a new situation. D) An agreement or harmony between people. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An agreement or harmony between people. 19. What plan do Hester and Dimmesdale make while in the woods? A) They plan to leave the colony together. B) They plan to blackmail Chillingsworth. C) Dimmesdale plans to adopt Pearl. D) Hester and Dimmesdale plan to move in together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They plan to leave the colony together. 20. They decided to postpone the meeting until next week. What does the word 'postpone' mean? A) To make someone believe something false. B) To delay or put off for later. C) To come near or get closer to something. D) A place where an animal lives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To delay or put off for later. 21. What word means the time between daylight and darkness? A) Twilight. B) Crumbling. C) Manifest. D) Luxuriant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Twilight. 22. She used duplicity to deceive her friends. What does the word 'duplicity' mean? A) Deceitful behavior or double-dealing. B) Short and full of meaning or wisdom. C) To make someone feel very confused or surprised. D) Lower or less important or of lower quality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deceitful behavior or double-dealing. 23. What was the setting of theScarlet Letter? A) It takes place at the end of the 17th century in Boston in a Protestant society. B) It takes place at the end of the 17th century in Boston in a Puritan society. C) It takes place at the end of the 18th century in Boston in a Catholic society. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It takes place at the end of the 17th century in Boston in a Puritan society. 24. Ch. 6 What does Pearl innately sense is linked to her and Hester's rejection by society? A) Hester's scarlet letter. B) Hester's obsession with nature. C) Hester's tattered clothing. D) Hester's rigid moral values. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hester's scarlet letter. 25. Phantasmagoric (Miss Ricci's favorite word) means ..... A) Dreamlike, surreal. B) Magical. C) Fabulous. D) Lurid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dreamlike, surreal. 26. Who is Hester Prynne? Select the BEST answer. A) Hester is a towns person who knows the judge. B) Hester is a towns person who lives near the jail. C) Hester is a mom. D) Hester is a towns person who was put in jail for committing adultery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hester is a towns person who was put in jail for committing adultery. 27. Which symbol of God's love/hope embraces Hester in chapter 18? A) Dimmesdale. B) Pearl. C) Sunlight. D) The forest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sunlight. 28. True or False:Hester makes beautiful clothes for both her and Pearl, her daughter. A) True, she does. B) False, she says they both need to wear rags. C) False, she dresses her baby in beautiful clothes, but she wears very plain clothes with her only decoration being the A. D) False, they go shopping at Wal-Mart to shop the clearance racks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) False, she dresses her baby in beautiful clothes, but she wears very plain clothes with her only decoration being the A. 29. What does Rev. Dimmesdale's congregation think of him? A) They think he is practically a saint. B) They think he is a horrible sinner. C) They think he is a weak man. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They think he is practically a saint. 30. To make amends for sin A) Attitude. B) Aptitude. C) Argyle. D) Atonement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Atonement. 31. A tendency to change one's mind without apparent or adequate motive; whimsicality A) Epoch. B) Delve. C) Efficacy. D) Caprice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Caprice. 32. What does the A represent? A) Absent. B) Adulterer. C) Abandon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adulterer. 33. A state of affairs that makes urgent demands A) Mutability. B) Epoch. C) Requirement. D) Ludicrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Requirement. 34. Who became Reverend Dimmesdale's doctor? A) Roger Chillingworth. B) Horses Prynne. C) The town's doctor. D) The governor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roger Chillingworth. 35. Ch. 5 How does Hester support herself and Pearl? A) Through her skill as a seamstress. B) Growing a garden. C) Engaging in "the oldest profession". D) Marrying a wealthy man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through her skill as a seamstress. 36. Hester had many friends who appreciated her work as a seamstress. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 37. Why does Hester choose the name Pearl? A) Pearl is cold and haughty. B) Pearl sparkles in the sunlight b/c she is a vampire. C) Pearl is pale and beautiful. D) Pearl was bought at a great price. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pearl was bought at a great price. 38. Hester had married ..... A) A man the same age. B) A much older man. C) A younger man. D) A friend. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A much older man. 39. The speaker's accent made it difficult for her words to be ..... to the audience. A) Intelligible. B) Inexplicable. C) Labyrinth. D) Correspond. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Intelligible. 40. What is the punishment Hester Prynne receives for her adultery in The Scarlet Letter? A) Exile. B) Imprisonment. C) Public Shaming. D) Death Penalty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public Shaming. 41. What is the definition of 'comprised'? A) Very knowledgeable and smart. B) Made up. C) A friendly and warm greeting or attitude. D) Something you do often or regularly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Made up. 42. When the gentlemen are ready to take Pearl from Hester, who stands up for Hester? A) Pearl. B) No one. C) Chillingworth. D) Dimmesdale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dimmesdale. 43. Who wrote the novel, The Scarlet Letter? A) Heather Dixson. B) Edgar Allan Poe. C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. D) Herman Melville. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nathaniel Hawthorne. 44. Extremely bad reputation; Notoriety due to a shocking action A) Sojourn. B) Inure. C) Infamy. D) Solace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Infamy. 45. Identify and explain the symbolism of the scarlet letter 'A' in the text. A) The scarlet letter 'A' symbolizes love and forgiveness. B) The scarlet letter 'A' symbolizes wealth and prosperity. C) The scarlet letter 'A' symbolizes honesty and integrity. D) The scarlet letter 'A' symbolizes adultery and public shaming, as well as Hester Prynne's strength and resilience. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The scarlet letter 'A' symbolizes adultery and public shaming, as well as Hester Prynne's strength and resilience. 46. Who dies in this section of the novel? A) Chillingsworth. B) Governor John Winthrop. C) Mistress Hibbins. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Governor John Winthrop. 47. Why does Hester dress Pearl in such fancy clothes? A) Pearl is like a living scarlet letter to Hester so she dresses her similarly to the A she wears. B) Pearl is a beautiful little girl and so Hester believes she should be decorated to show off her beauty. C) Pearl is her only child and Hester treats her like a living doll. D) Hester wants to show off Pearl to the townspeople who think she can't properly raise her daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pearl is like a living scarlet letter to Hester so she dresses her similarly to the A she wears. 48. What illuminates the scaffold scene where Hester, Dimmesdale and Pearl are brought together? A) A fire. B) A torch. C) A lantern. D) A meteor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A meteor. 49. "I freely forgive you now. May God forgive us both! We are not ..... the worst sinners in the world." A) Chillingworth. B) Dimmesdale. C) Pearl. D) Hester. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dimmesdale. 50. What does the narrator find in the second story of the Custom House? A) A scarlet rag of cloth in the shape of an 'A'. B) Moths. C) A black rag of cloth in the shape of an 'A'. D) The tale of Hester Prynne's life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A scarlet rag of cloth in the shape of an 'A'. 51. Why does the narrator suggest that Dimmesdale doesn't suspect Chillingworth of anything? A) With a sick heart, Dimmesdale is suspicious of everything and no longer trusts himself to recognize an enemy. B) With a healthy heart, Dimmesdale trusts everyone equally. C) With a sick heart, Dimmesdale refuses to be suspicious of anyone. D) With a healthy heart, Dimmesdale feels no ill will towards anyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With a sick heart, Dimmesdale is suspicious of everything and no longer trusts himself to recognize an enemy. 52. Existing outside of nature; abnormal A) Heathen. B) Malevolent. C) Talisman. D) Preternatural. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Preternatural. 53. Pearl seems to be the ..... in another form. A) Scarlet letter. B) Rose bush. C) Devil. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scarlet letter. 54. Pearl started screaming because she saw ..... A) Reverend with her mother. B) Hester without the Scarlet letter. C) She had hurt one of the birds. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hester without the Scarlet letter. 55. What word means a series of hits or shots? A) Vex. B) Volley. C) Stupefy. D) Gratuitous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volley. 56. What word means cannot be explained? A) Inexplicable. B) Despondent. C) Nurture. D) Resolve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inexplicable. 57. ..... was in the old wooden box with the papers? A) What. B) Who. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) What. 58. The scarlet letter enhances Hester's beauty. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 59. What reason does Pearl give for why the reverend keeps his hand over his heart? A) Because he has a secret. B) Because it is cold. C) Because he is praying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because he has a secret. 60. What becomes of Roger Chillingworth? A) He mysteriously disappears. B) He returns to Europe alone. C) He returns to Europe with Hester and Pearl. D) He withers and dies within a year. 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