Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born in 1804 this author eventually wrote numerous famous pieces of literature such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
The age of Reverend Hooper at the beginning of The Minister's Black Veil.
What is about thirty?
Defined as being filled with enthusiasm or devotion.
What is zealous?
This is the largest mammal on planet.
What is a blue whale?
The Earth's Black Veil symbolizes this.
What is night?
The city where Hawthorne was born.
What is Salem?
Mr. Hooper's Black Veil is made of this material.
What is crepe?
What iniquity is.
What is sin?
This is Wonder Woman's name.
What is Diana Prince?
The veil has been debated as referring to this type of sin.
What is secret sin?
The year Nathaniel Hawthorne died.
What is 1864?
The three events Mr. Hooper attended on his first day with the veil.
What are a sermon, a funeral, and a wedding?
A raised structure from which Mr. Hooper delivered his sermon.
What is a pulpit?
This is what M&M's stand for.
What is Mars and Murrie?
This classroom object was used as an example of symbolism at the start of this lesson.
What is the American Flag?
Who is Sophia Peabody?
Mr. Hooper's fiance, who eventually leaves him.
Who is Elizabeth?
A synod.
What is a council of church officials?
This is the Maine state bird.
What is the chickadee?
On his deathbed, Hooper claims that everyone wears one of these.
What is a veil?
Hawthorne's neighbor with whom he was quite fond.
Who is Herman Melville?
Mr. Hooper became known as an object of fear...referred to as this within the story.
What is a bugbear?
Antipathy.
What is a feeling of intense dislike?
The fear of the number thirteen.
What is triskaidekaphobia?
The veil is the one we shed upon death.
What is the mortal veil?