Minister's Black Veil Test Generator

MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL TEST GENERATOR

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"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by the nineteenth century author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published within the publication entitled Twice-Told Tales.

The story is set in what appears to be a Puritan community in the seventeenth century. The story details events surrounding one Reverend Hooper, after he suddenly and mysteriously begins wearing a veil of black crape over his face, covering his eyes and nose. The reverend assumes the black veil before the day's church meeting. After, he proceeds to officiate at a funeral and then a wedding. In both events, highly supernatural events occur, and the veil's true nature begins to become unraveled. In a later conversation with his fiancée, Elizabeth, Mr. Hooper goes about explaining the reason for the veil, and its symbolism.

    It is relatively safe to assume that the message of the story is that of how one can never come to grips with one's truly evil nature. Mr. Hooper's dying words, in which he condemns others as dishonest with themselves, also affirm this theme. The protagonist conceals his secret sin. By concealing his "secret sin," Mr. Hooper essentially helps other Puritans to realize everyone has a "secret sin." Some display their sins and others hide them.

    Aside from the theme of "secret sin" another compelling aspect of this tale is the reaction of the townspeople to the wearing of the veil. In many of his stories, Hawthorne seeks to portray Puritan society in a certain way and often he exposes the element of superstition. Although the story does have a supernatural element, it should be remembered that the narrator does not describe these happenings himself, but details the townspeople's understanding of the "supernatural" events. It is left to speculation as to whether or not these things happened or if the townspeople were merely generating gossip.

The Minister's Black Veil Test Generator is a tool for teachers to use when studying this story in their classes. It will save teachers hours of prep time and will allow them generate tests, quizzes, or worksheets in varied numbers. More importantly, however, it will allow teachers to create their test questions once, and then it will give the teacher the power to instantly generate a random, sequential, or selected multitude of tests based on the original questions devised. This is extremely helpful when teachers have a group of classes covering the same subject area and tests are given to each class – one following the other.

Our test generators fill the needs of most teachers when creating tests.

Create collections of these kinds of questions: fill-in, short answer, multiple choice, open-ended response
Save these collections of questions as files that I could edit and reuse in the future.
Quickly and easily use the files of questions to generate tests with questions randomly selected from the entire file.
Quickly and easily use the files of questions to generate tests with questions randomly selected from selected ranges of questions from the entire file.
Quickly and easily use the files of questions to generate tests with questions I select from the list of question in the entire file.
In all of the above cases the program should also provide a neatly formatted list of answers for each of the questions asked.

Notice that the key words from this list are quickly and easily. Teachers have lots of work to do, and a lot of this work eats up preparation time. A computer program that would do this prep work would save a lot of time that could be better spent on other jobs.

Minister's Black Veil Test Generator will do the tasks outlined above. In addition, you can also format your finished tests the way you want them (you can even paste graphics into the final test you create); save the generated tests in named files, for use in the future; copy and paste your test information into other documents in your favorite word processor; search for and insert information in your final tests, and print hard copies to your printer. Minister's Black Veil Test Generator even includes a test editor, so that you can quickly and easily make up your test data and save it in a format that Minister's Black Veil Test Generator can import and append to the current database of questions and answers. We have even included a simple search puzzle maker, too. This is handy for creating search puzzles based on vocabulary.

FREE OFFER -- When you download the program or purchase it on CD you will also receive three pages of clickable internet source links for Nathanial Hawthorne and his works. This is a great research time-saver you and your students can use for special projects and class work.

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