Reading Comprehension Questions on The Scarlet Letter, from "The Custom House"
Directions: Read the excerpt and the summary completely and carefully BEFORE trying this quiz.  Feel free to 1) Google words you don't know in another tab, 2) Use the FIND feature of your browser (ctrl+f) and 3) split the screen so that the questions are on one side and the text is on the other.  Submit when done. GOOD LUCK!
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Last Name, First Name *
Your School ID: *
Your email address (if you want your grade automatically sent to you).
Your period for Everett's Class: *
This is the narrator's ____ time to write autobiographically. *
By "indulgent" the narrator means . . . *
The narrator says that he had spent ___ years at the Custom-House. *
By "leaves" the narrator means . . . *
The "author" (actually the narrator) says that he is addressing those willing to ____ him. *
By "apprehensive friend" (notice the root "apprehend"), the narrator means "____ friend." *
By "genial," the narrator means ____. *
From the notes (in purple) we find out that THE SCARLET LETTER was originally meant to be a . . . *
By referring to his volume of tales as "prolix," the author is being . . . *
Which word characterizes the warf at the time of the narrator's writing? *
By the narrator's description of the eagle, we can surmise that the speaker's attitude toward the U.S. Federal Government is . . . *
The narrator finds a ___ in the ___ storey of a ____. *
The manuscript is held together with . . . *
The narrator drops the cloth because it seems to . . . *
The events told of in the manuscript take place in the . . . *
The writer of the manuscript, Jonathan Pue, wrote the manuscript in the . . . *
Hawthorne's narrator is writing in the . . . *
The manuscript contains information on the life of . . . *
The narrator mentions that his account of the experiences mentioned in the manuscript will be . . . *
Ultimately, the narrator ends up writing THE SCARLET LETTER . . . *
In what way is the author NOT like the narrator? *
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