excerpt from Young Goodman Brown

During the Colonial period, the forest embodied all that was evil, including the unknown. This is most apparent in which of the following paragraphs?

• 1 and 2

• 6 and 7

• 8 and 9

• 11 and 12

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

In the final paragraph, Goodman Brown tells the man he meets in the woods that “Faith kept me back a while.” Literally, he means that his wife made him late. What other meaning could this remark have had?

• His religious faith almost kept him from the journey.

• His faith in his marriage was more important than the journey.

• Faith is necessary to complete the things one is required to do.

• The remark could have no meaning beyond the literal one.

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CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

This excerpt suggests that all people must, at some time, choose between good and evil. All of the following contribute to the reader’s perception that Goodman Brown knows that he is about to embrace evil except

• paragraph 3, Goodman Brown says, “. . . of all nights in the year, this one night must I tarry away from thee.”

• paragraph 7, Goodman Brown thinks, “. . . [it was] as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done to-night.”

• paragraph 8, “. . . Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose.”

• paragraph 1, “Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village . . .”

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CCSS.RL.11-12.1

This excerpt suggests that Hawthorne’s philosophical position includes which one of the following ideas?

• Man is predisposed to do evil.

• Man’s first impulse is to do good.

• Man creates his own reality.

• Man is responsible for his actions.

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CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2