Question

Use the paragraph below to answer the question. It grieved him to the very depth of his kind heart to observe how the children fled from his approach, breaking up their merriest sports while his melancholy figure was yet afar off. Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape. In truth, his own antipathy to the veil was known to be so great that he never willingly passed before a mirror nor stooped to drink at a still fountain lest in its peaceful bosom he should be affrighted by himself. This was what gave plausibility to the whispers that Mr. Hooper’s conscience tortured him for some great crime too horrible to be entirely concealed or otherwise than so obscurely intimated. Thus from beneath the black veil there rolled a cloud into the sunshine, an ambiguity of sin or sorrow, which enveloped the poor minister, so that love or sympathy could never reach him. It was said that ghost and fiend consorted with him there. With self-shudderings and outward terrors he walked continually in its shadow, groping darkly within his own soul or gazing through a medium that saddened the whole world. Even the lawless wind, it was believed, respected his dreadful secret and never blew aside the veil. But still good Mr. Hooper sadly smiled at the pale visages of the worldly throng as he passed by. Question What is the author satirizing in this paragraph?(1 point) Responses the minister’s Calvinist beliefs that make him see the world as a dark, terrible place the minister’s Calvinist beliefs that make him see the world as a dark, terrible place the idea that Mr. Hooper is a good man the idea that Mr. Hooper is a good man the idea that children fear the presence of Mr. Hooper the idea that children fear the presence of Mr. Hooper the minister’s rejection of Calvinist beliefs as the cause of his personal melancholy

Answer 1

pick one correct answer

Answer 2

The paragraph does not contain any satirical elements. The author is describing Mr. Hooper's experiences and perceptions without using irony or satire.

Answer 3

The correct answer is "the minister’s Calvinist beliefs that make him see the world as a dark, terrible place."