Q 01/05

Which question does The Minister's Black Veil leave unanswered right to the end?

A) Who ends the engagement

B) Why Hooper wears it

C) Where the story is set

D) How Hooper is buried

Answer · why

B) Why Hooper wears it

Why Hooper wears it is never revealed: he offers only hints, telling his fiancée the veil may stand for sorrow or for guilt that any mortal might hide...

Q 02/05

In The Minister's Black Veil, what becomes of Hooper's face covering when he dies?

A) It is buried with him

B) His fiancée finally lifts it

C) A fellow minister burns it

D) It hangs in the church

Answer · why

A) It is buried with him

It is buried with him: still veiled, he is laid in his coffin and carried to the grave. The narrator calls it an awful thought that his face mouldered...

Q 03/05

In his dying speech in The Minister's Black Veil, Hooper declares that he sees a black veil on whom?

A) His fellow ministers

B) The village deacons

C) The woman he lost

D) Everyone around him

Answer · why

D) Everyone around him

Everyone around him, he insists, hides an inmost heart from loved ones and from God, so all wear a veil of their own. The watchers shrink from one ano...

Q 04/05

Who is Hooper's fiancée in The Minister's Black Veil, the woman who asks him plainly to remove it?

A) Hester

B) Elizabeth

C) Georgiana

D) Faith

Answer · why

B) Elizabeth

Elizabeth asks him plainly to lift the veil and explain it; when he will not raise it even once, she says farewell and the engagement ends.

Q 05/05

A footnote to The Minister's Black Veil says a real Maine clergyman hid his face after what?

A) Jilting his bride at the altar

B) Surviving a disfiguring fever

C) Accidentally killing a friend

D) Losing his whole congregation

Answer · why

C) Accidentally killing a friend

Accidentally killing a friend in his youth, the footnote says, led Joseph Moody to hide his face until his own death. Hawthorne adds that Moody's cove...