Book excerpt: The Minister's Black Veil, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, Feathertop: A Moralized Legend.Grammardog Teacher's Guide contains 16 quizzes for these short stories. All sentences are from the stories. Elements of Romanticism and Gothic imagery dominate figurative language ("the old forest whispering," "as if Nature were laughing," "the Earth, too, had on her black veil") and allusions to folklore and religion (witch's benediction, incantations, book of magic, Fountain of Youth, Sabbath, scriptures, sermon, Eden).