Read the following passage from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and answer the question that follows.   "A lane was forthwith opened through the crowd of spectators. Preceded by the beadle, and attended by an irregular procession of stern-browed men and unkindly visaged women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious school-boys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to stare into her face, and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the ignominious letter on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison-door to the market-place. Measured by the prisoner's experience, however, it might be reckoned a journey of some length; for, haughty as her demeanor was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung into the street for them all to spurn and trample upon."Which type of conflict is present in this passage? Character versus character Character versus nature Character versus society Character versus technology

The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the story, the plants cultivated near a prison symbolize compassion and kindness towards prisoners and condemned criminals.11Mark for ReviewCross out answer choices you think are wrong.ABCWhich quotation from the The Scarlet Letter most effectively illustrates the claim?A"Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison."B"Finding [the vegetation] so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader."C"But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."D"This rose-bush, by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history, but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it [. . .] we shall not take upon us to determine."

13The following text is from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1851. In this scene, set in the American Colonies when they were still governed by England, Colonel Pyncheon holds a party at his home for a visiting English dignitary. The narrator implies that the colonel’s behavior is unusually withdrawn: ______13 Mark For Review13Which quotation from The House of the Seven Gables most effectively illustrates the claim?A) “[Colonel] noted for the square and ponderous courtesy of his demeanor, ought surely to have stood in his own hall, and to have offered the first welcome to so many eminent personages ... He was as yet invisible”B) “‘Do not you see, fellow,’ said the high-sheriff of the county, taking the servant aside, ‘that this is no less a man than the lieutenant-governor?’”C) “But [colonel] will be ill-pleased, I judge, if you suffer him to neglect the courtesy due to one of our chief rulers, and who may be said to represent King William”D) “When the sound subsided, the silence through the house was deep, dreary, and oppressive, notwithstanding that the tongues of many of the guests”

The following text is adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1843 story “The Birth-Mark.” The protagonist of the story, Aylmer, marries Georgina, a woman with a birthmark.In the centre of Georgiana’s left cheek there was a singular mark, deeply interwoven with the texture and substance of her face. In the usual state of her complexion, the mark wore a tint of deeper crimson. When she blushed it gradually became more indistinct, but if any shifting motion caused her to turn pale there was the mark again, a crimson stain upon the snow.Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To describe Georgiana’s physical appearanceeliminateTo showcase what made Aylmer fall in love with his wifeeliminateTo emphasize the prominence of Georgiana’s birthmarkeliminateTo depict Aylmer’s repulsed reaction to the birthmark

What is the Hawthorne Effect?Select one:The process of observing staff carrying out their duties for requirements gatheringPeople’s tendency not to speak up in a group because they are being observed by othersThe response of a team member when another team member is given a rewardPeople’s tendency to behave differently when they are being observed

From which point of view is the following passage written?The Scarlet Ibis. . . one afternoon as I watched him, my head poked between the iron posts of the foot of the bed, he looked straight at me and grinned. I skipped through the room, . . . shouting, “Mama, he smiled. He’s all there! He’s all there!” And he was.limited third personomniscient third personfirst person