This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Classics > The Scarlet Letter > The Scarlet Letter – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Scarlet Letter Quiz 34 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What word means to express strong disapproval of something? A) Bound. B) Penance. C) Morbid. D) Condemn. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condemn. 2. Pearl's dress worn to the Governor's mansion is an important point in the novel. Why is it so significant? A) Pearl is the living embodiment of sin an extension of the scarlet letter. B) Hester wants people to see that despite being created in sin, Pearl is beautiful. C) Hester wants to show off her sewing skills in order to get more business. D) The reader sees how much Pearl looks like her mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pearl is the living embodiment of sin an extension of the scarlet letter. 3. Rhythmic sequence or flow of sounds in language A) Malevolent. B) Spectre. C) Cadence. D) Loquacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cadence. 4. To indicate; to be a warning or sign of A) Betoken. B) Transgressor. C) Scourge. D) Inauspicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Betoken. 5. The queen's ..... over the country has been marked by prosperity and stability. A) Apparition. B) Illustrate. C) Sobering. D) Reign. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reign. 6. What does the forest stand for? A) An evil place where the Dark Man lives. B) A dark, sinister place where lives are ruined. C) A wild, uninhibited place where passion can flourish. D) A bright place where flowers grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A wild, uninhibited place where passion can flourish. 7. A court of justice (a panel or committee A) Venerable. B) Augured. C) Magistrate. D) Tribunal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tribunal. 8. Who is the person who comes to help Rev. Dimmesdale recover from health problems? A) Mistress Hibbins. B) Roger Chillingworth. C) Governor Bellingham. D) Reverend Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Roger Chillingworth. 9. "Do not tease me; else I shall shut thee into the dark closet!" A) Pearl. B) Dimmesdale. C) Chillingworth. D) Hester. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hester. 10. A change or variation in the course of something A) Morion. B) Vicissitude. C) Uncouth. D) Prattle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vicissitude. 11. Of the common people A) Plebeian. B) Pallid. C) Eminence. D) Dearth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plebeian. 12. What punishment has Hester received for her adultery? A) Lifetime imprisonment. B) Death penalty. C) Exile from the colony. D) Public condemnation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Public condemnation. 13. What does Hester do to support herself? A) Embroidery and needlework. B) Charity work. C) Teaching. D) Farming. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Embroidery and needlework. 14. What is the definition of 'exalt'? A) To get sick again after getting better. B) A powerful god or goddess. C) A person who helps organize and control things. D) To lift or praise someone very high. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To lift or praise someone very high. 15. Who suggested that Pearl needs to be taken from Hester and given to a good home with good parents to raise her? A) Rev. Dimmsdale. B) Rev. Wilson. C) Roger Chillingworth. D) Governor Billingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rev. Wilson. 16. What helps Hester recognise Chillingworth in the crowd as she stood on the scaffold? A) He called out to her. B) His deformity. C) His height. D) His clothing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His deformity. 17. Yet these thoughts affected Hester Prynne less with hope than apprehension. Here the word apprehension means A) Faith. B) Understanding. C) Anxiety. D) Surrender. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anxiety. 18. True or False:Mr. Dimmsdale had a black secret on his soul A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 19. Not to be disputed or contested A) Malignant. B) Aught. C) Effervescence. D) Irrefragable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irrefragable. 20. Hester refused to name the father of her child because ..... A) She was threaten by Dimmesdale. B) She was threaten by Roger. C) She had been sentenced by townspeople. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She was threaten by Roger. 21. What is the definition of 'grovel'? A) To beg or plead with someone. B) A very deep and wide hole. C) A really bad and disastrous event. D) Kind and not causing harm or danger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To beg or plead with someone. 22. A violation as of a law or obligation A) Breach. B) Asperity. C) Estranged. D) Acrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Breach. 23. Why do you think Reverend Dimmesdale's health was getting worse? (Choose the BEST answer.) A) He was sick with guilt. B) He was sick with love and passion for Hester. C) He had a disease, and it was making him weak. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was sick with guilt. 24. The shocking news from the witness stand seemed to ..... the courtroom. A) Inferior. B) Blasphemy. C) Deliberate. D) Stupefy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stupefy. 25. An inhabitant; resident A) Alloy. B) Denizen. C) Sere. D) Misanthropy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denizen. 26. What natural phenomenon comes to symbolize both Dimmesdale's "sin" and Governor Winthrop's "virtue" ? A) A forest fire. B) A flood. C) A meteor. D) A lighting bolt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A meteor. 27. A tomb, grave, or burial place A) Scourge. B) Sepulchre. C) Fervor. D) Vivify. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sepulchre. 28. What does the scarlet letter symbolize in Chapter 15 of The Scarlet Letter? A) The town's forgiveness. B) Hester's sin and shame. C) Hester's redemption. D) Pearl's innocence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hester's sin and shame. 29. True of False:Chillingsworth described their marriage as perfectly natural and holy. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 30. What word means dispela:To make something go away or disappear? A) Reputable. B) Metropolis. C) Dispel. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dispel. 31. What is the definition of 'profuse'? A) Dispela:To make something go away or disappear. B) A lot or too much of something. C) Not willing to change or bend. D) To formally accuse someone of a crime. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A lot or too much of something. 32. Where does this story take place? A) Boston, during Puritan times. B) Salem, during Puritan times. C) Providence, RI, during Puritan times. D) An unnamed Puritan village. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Boston, during Puritan times. 33. True or False:Hester decorates the letter A with blue thread which was her way of telling the townspeople she was making the best of a bad situation. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 34. True or false:Pearl is passionate and beautiful like Hester. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. What word means thought to be known for | 4th Grader Definition:Known or famous for something? A) Gospel. B) Pithy. C) Duplicity. D) Reputed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reputed. 36. The traits or characteristics that determine one's personality A) Fibre. B) Gallows. C) Ignominy. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibre. 37. The author's work will be remembered by ..... for its profound impact on literature. A) Posterity. B) Dispel. C) Profuse. D) Dispose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Posterity. 38. When Chillingworth comes upon Dimmesdale napping, what does he do? A) He opens Dimmesdale's robe and looks at his chest. B) He tiptoes away so as not to wake him up. C) He brews a potion to help Dimmesdale stay asleep longer. D) He wakes him up so that he'll sleep better at night. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He opens Dimmesdale's robe and looks at his chest. 39. In Chapter 6, what was it about Pearl's actions that concerned Hester? A) Pearl was quiet and withdrawn from her mother. B) Pearl was too friendly and even talked to strangers. C) Pearl refused to speak to her mother unless her mother made her new outfits regularly. D) Pearl was wild and undisciplined. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pearl was wild and undisciplined. 40. What trait does Hester pass on to her daughter Pearl? A) Her strong and defiant spirit. B) Her unyielding sense of Puritan values. C) Her calm and gentle nature. D) Her desire to conform to societal norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her strong and defiant spirit. 41. The quality or state of next or near in time or sequence A) Gesticulating. B) Trammelled. C) Mollified. D) Contiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contiguity. 42. What word means to explain something in more detail? A) Comprised. B) Apostle. C) Elaborate. D) Mortal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elaborate. 43. Who did Hester and Pearl come upon while walking by the seashore? A) Mr Trezza. B) Chillingworth. C) A stranger. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chillingworth. 44. Dimmesdale's sin effects him in all of the following ways except ..... ? A) A pain in his chest. B) Hair Loss tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10. C) Weight loss. D) Inability to sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hair Loss tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.10. 45. What is the definition of 'infernal'? A) To agree or make an agreement. B) A conversation or discussion between people. C) Very, very, bad or wicked. D) To interfere or get involved, often unwanted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very, very, bad or wicked. 46. Who goes up onto the scaffold with Dimmesdale? A) Pearl and Hester. B) The other minister. C) No one. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pearl and Hester. 47. She interposed herself between the two arguing friends, attempting to mediate the situation. What does the word 'interpose' mean? A) To insert or say something in between. B) Immediately or without any delay. C) Showing how things are different. D) A person who did something wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To insert or say something in between. 48. Who discovers the three together? A) Chillingworth. B) Gov. Bellingham. C) Rev. Wilson. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chillingworth. 49. Explain the symbolism behind Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10. A) Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10 symbolizes her greed and selfishness. B) Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10 symbolizes her lack of intelligence. C) Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10 symbolizes her connection to nature and innocence. D) Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10 symbolizes her fear of the unknown. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pearl's behavior in Chapter 10 symbolizes her connection to nature and innocence. 50. Who is Hester's pastor? A) Dimmesdale. B) Chillingworth. C) Winthrop. D) Wilson. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dimmesdale. 51. To divide or distribute A) Allot. B) Throng. C) Iniquity. D) Scourge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allot. 52. Why is Hester's encounter with Dimmesdale important in Chapter 17 of The Scarlet Letter? A) The encounter exposes Hester's true identity to Dimmesdale. B) The encounter reveals their emotional connection and foreshadows the revelation of their secret sin. C) The encounter deepens Hester's guilt and shame. D) The encounter leads to Hester's banishment from the community. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The encounter reveals their emotional connection and foreshadows the revelation of their secret sin. 53. When the crowd finally spotted the scarlet letter, they realized that it was ..... A) Shaped like a snake. B) Sewn with gold thread. C) Stained with blood. D) Almost too tiny to see. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sewn with gold thread. 54. What do officials think about Pearl and her upbringing? A) Pearl is intellient and witty. B) Pearl is of average intelligence. C) Pearl is unmannerly and devilish. D) Pearl is playful and sweet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pearl is unmannerly and devilish. 55. How is Pearl described? A) An elf-child. B) A lovely child. C) Her mother's only treasure. D) Wild. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 56. How is Dimmesdale's guilt revealed in Chapter 15 of The Scarlet Letter? A) Dimmesdale confesses his guilt to Hester. B) Dimmesdale's guilt is revealed through his increased religious fervor. C) Dimmesdale's guilt is revealed through his sudden wealth and success. D) Dimmesdale's guilt is revealed through his physical and emotional deterioration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dimmesdale's guilt is revealed through his physical and emotional deterioration. 57. Their problems were ..... from one another, making it difficult to find a solution. A) Malevolent. B) Replete. C) Inextricable. D) Portent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inextricable. 58. Who is the following quote describing? " ..... what a change had come over his features, -how much uglier they were, -how his dark complexion seemed to have grown duskier, and his figure more misshapen ..... " (90). A) Roger Chillingworth. B) Pastor Wilson. C) Reverend Dimmesdale. D) Governor Bellingham. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Roger Chillingworth. 59. One reason Hester's physical appearance has changed over the years is that: A) Her hair isn't visible. B) Her clothing has become tattered because she only wears one dress. C) She has removed the scarlet letter. D) She has ceased to wear make-up. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her hair isn't visible. 60. Before having success as an author, where did Hawthorne work? A) Boston Market. B) Boston Mercantile Store. C) Boston Custom House. D) He was a bum. 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