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WorksheetsNathaniel Hawthorne & Symbolism
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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1.
A symbol is...
a)
a person, place, thing, or place that has meaning in itself but also stands for something more than itself.
b)
something that stands for something specific.
c)
a feeling that you get from an object, person or place.
d)
nothing really important.
2.
What is the symbolic significance of this symbol?
a)
A book filled with religious stories.
b)
faith, God, religion.
c)
Death, darkness, sadness, race, politics.
d)
A book of stories of the future.
3.
What is the literal meaning of this symbol?
a)
good luck
b)
St. Patrick's day
c)
A green, four leaf clover from a plant
d)
Leprechaun
4.
What is a parable?
a)
A story of ordinary life events.
b)
A long poem written in rhyme.
c)
a short, usually simple story based on ordinary life events which a moral lesson is drawn.
d)
A long story based on events from normal life, from which a moral lesson is drawn.
5.
Define inanimate
a)
n. believeability
b)
n. strong dislike
c)
adv. thoughtfully or seriously
d)
adj. lifeless
6.
Obscurity means...
a)
adj. lifeless
b)
n. darkness
c)
n. wickedness
d)
adj. deliberately attracting notice
7.
Iniquity can be defined as "deliberately attracting notice"?
a)
True
b)
False
8.
Define ostentatious
a)
adj. deliberately attracting notice.
b)
adv. thoughtfully or seriously.
c)
n. strong dislike.
d)
n. believability.
9.
True or False. Plausibility is defined as believability?
a)
True
b)
False
10.
The main character in "The Minister's Black Veil" is
a)
Reverend Mr. Hooper, who is the Parson of the story.
b)
The Reverend Mr. Hooper who is the physician in the story.
c)
The Reverend Mr. Hooper, who is the the sexton in the story.
d)
Goodman Gray of the sexton.
11.
The beginning of the story takes place
a)
in the afternoon with the funeral service for the parishioner.
b)
on a Sunday morning at the Milford meeting house.
c)
In the evening at the wedding with the towns handsomest couple.
d)
On a Monday morning.
12.
The main conflict of the story is
a)
The sins that everyone has committed before mass.
b)
Women are the only people allowed to use veils.
c)
The Reverend Mr. Hooper is sick.
d)
the black veil that Reverend Mr. Hooper is wearing and won't take off.
13.
What did the narrator of story mean by "For the Earth, too, had on her Black Veil"?
a)
The Earth's wears a black veil to hide away her sins.
b)
The Earth wears a veil, that veil is the Night.
c)
The Earth is a major character in the story.
d)
The Earth is mimicking the Reverend Mr. Hooper.
14.
True or False. Mr. Hooper and Elizabeth are married and then get divorced.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
When Elizabeth confronts Mr. Hooper about the veil and asks him to remove it he responds...
a)
"My dear for you I shall do anything", then he removes the veil.
b)
"There is an hour to come, when all of us shall cast aside our veils."
c)
Says nothing and just stares at her.
d)
Is upset and says, "who do you think you are to ask me to take off my beloved crape?"
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