A character with this profession breaks off his engagement with Elizabeth in a short story about a “Black Veil” that he symbolically wears over his face. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this profession of another man who dies on a scaffold holding his daughter and her mother while watching a meteor.
ANSWER: Reverend [accept Reverend Hooper; accept “The Minister’s Black Veil”; accept Reverend (Arthur) Dimmesdale; accept other Christian religious leaders like priest, clergyman, pastor, preacher]
[10e] “The Minister’s Black Veil” was written by this author who wrote about Hester Prynne’s adultery in The Scarlet Letter.
ANSWER: Nathaniel Hawthorne
[10h] Hawthorne classified many of his novels as this genre, including a novel in which Moodie is revealed to be the father of both Priscilla and Zenobia. A utopian novel titled for this genre is based on the community of Brook Farm.
ANSWER: romances [accept The Blithedale Romance]
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