What baffled its early readers of Moby Dick was the book’s wild extravagances of mood and language, its effect of what the modern critic Van Wyck Brooks calls “a shredded _________play”.
A. Homer’s
B. Hawthorne’s
C. Emersonian
D. Shakespearean
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Hawthorne, in "The Custom House", the introdcutory chapter to ______________________(1850), described the old employees of the shipping office rocking in rows of chairs, mostly idle now in town where once there had been a scurry hustle.
A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Mosses from an Old Manse
D. The Marble Faun
Which of the following statement is CORRECT about Hawthorne?
A. His unique gift was for the creatioin of strongly symbolic stories which touch the deepest roots of man's moral nature.
B. His finest symbolic exampleThe Scarlet Letter is a complex story of guilt, and its effect upon various persons.
C. He is the largest brain with the largest heart.
D. All of the above.
Which of the following is NOT correct about Hester in the book The Scarlet Letter (1850)?
A. She committed adultery with the reverend Arthur Dimmesdale.
B. She was not good at needle work.
C. She dressed herself in dull colors but her child Pearl in bright highly-ornamented costumes.
D. She loved Arthur Dimmersdale deeply.
_____deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from Hawthorne’s family history.
A. The House of Seven Gables
B. Mosses from an Old Manse
C. The Blithedale Romance
D. The Marble Faun