Test I: Introduction - Chapter 5

Question 1

determination; firmness

Answer 1

tenacity

Question 2

disliking activity

Answer 2

indolent

Question 3

sluggishness; inactivity

Answer 3

torpor

Question 4

a perfect society

Answer 4

utopia

Question 5

sympathetic; agreeable

Answer 5

congenial

Question 6

unpromising; foreboding

Answer 6

inauspicious

Question 7

vanishing like vapor

Answer 7

evanescent

Question 8

disgrace; humiliation

Answer 8

ignominy

Question 9

one’s bearing; demeanor

Answer 9

mien

Question 10

imaginary; constantly changing

Answer 10

phantasmagoric

Question 11

attached; added

Answer 11

appended

Question 12

distinguished; prominent

Answer 12

eminent

Question 13

meaning; significance

Answer 13

purport

Question 14

compliant

Answer 14

amenable

Question 15

liquid to be drunk

Answer 15

draught

Question 16

secret lover

Answer 16

paramour

Question 17

melodramatic; sensational

Answer 17

lurid

Question 18

incomprehensible; mysterious

Answer 18

inscrutable

Question 19

help; relief

Answer 19

succor

Question 20

salary, pay

Answer 20

emolument

Question 21

year The Scarlett Letter was published

Answer 21

1850

Question 22

Hawthorne’s two friends

Answer 22

Herman Melville; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 23

What region is The Scarlett Letter set in?

Answer 23

New England

Question 24

What is Hawthorne’s word for his style of writing?

Answer 24

romance

Question 25

What metaphor does he use to evoke this style?

Answer 25

moonlight

Question 26

Adorns the Custom-House entrance

Answer 26

an eagle

Question 27

describes the stranger in the market-place crowd

Answer 27

hunched, with one shoulder higher than the other

Question 28

the "black flower of civilized society"

Answer 28

a prison

Question 29

Where the Black Man can be found

Answer 29

a forest

Question 30

describes the garments Hester sews, including the scarlet letter

Answer 30

exquisite, fanciful, and charming

Question 31

associated with the expression of the stranger in the market-place crowd

Answer 31

a snake

Question 32

describes the author's progenitors

Answer 32

morally strict and perciless

Question 33

describes the prison door

Answer 33

rusty and weathered

Question 34

describes Hester's demeanor while on the pillory scaffold

Answer 34

haughty and upright

Question 35

adorns the entrance of the prison

Answer 35

a rosebush