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The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 1-4
Complete.
Review
1.
What are the women outside the prison door like?
2.
Who is this white man who comes into the market place with the Indian?
3.
How does Hester get through her ordeal on the scaffold?
4.
What clues has Hawthorne given that show Chillingworth will find the guilty person?
5.
Who does Hester refer to when she says, "Art thou like the Black Man that
haunts the forest round about us?"
6.
How does Hester Prynne present herself on the scaffold in the presence of the crowd?
7.
How does Chillingworth plan to discover who the father of the child is?
8.
As she stands on the scaffold thinking about other things, what brings Hester back to reality?
9.
Who is assembled on a balcony of the meeting house looking down at the
platform?
10.
What does the writer suggest we do with one of the flowers from the rose bush by the prison door?
11.
Who does John Wilson, the eldest clergyman of Boston, ask to deal with
Hester's sin?
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12.
In the extremity, what could Hester's punishment have been?
13.
What argument does Dimmesdale use in trying to convince Hester to give the information he asks for?
14.
what do Hester and Roger plan to do about their marital state?
15.
With whom is Chillingworth really angry?
16.
What is Hester's relationship to the man "well stricken in years, a pale, thin scholar-like visage, with
eyes dim and bleared by the lamplight...a strange
penetrating power...to read the human soul"?
17.
What is the black flower of civilized society?
18.
What is Hester's punishment?
19.
What should the rose bush by the prison door symbolize?
24.
What does the stranger in the crowd vow?
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The Scarlet Letter: Ghapters 5-B
Complete.
Review
1. Who doesn't wear Hester's needlework?
2.
What arguments does Dimmesdale use in Hester's defense to keep Pearl?
3.
How does Pearl react to other children?
4.
How has Roger Chillingworth changed?
5.
Who is in the garden with Governor Bellingham?
6.
What argument does Hester use to keep the child with her?
7.
What does Governor Bellingham propose they do with Pearl?
8.
What arguments are used for taking Pearl away from her mother?
9.
What is the gossip in the village concerning Pearl's father?
10.
To whom does Hester appeal for help?
11.
Where does Hester live?
12.
What answer does Pearl give to Mr. Wilson's question of "...who made thee?"
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14.
How has Chillingworth changed?
15.
What do you think Chillingworth has discOvered when he looks at Dimmesdale's chest?
16.
Why has Dimmesdale come to hate himself?
17.
How many years have passed since Hester first stood on the scaffold?
18.
While Dimmesdale is being tortured by Chillingworth and his health is failing, what is happening to his
reputation as a minister?
19.
Why does Dimmesdale seek Chillingworth's help?
20.
What do the townspeople think about the meteor?
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The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 9-12
Complete.
Review
1. Does Dimmesdale seem to be aware of Chillingworth's goal?
2.
What is Chillingworth's goal?
3.
What does Dimmesdale see in the sky?
4.
What warning does Pearl give her mother and Minister Dimmesdale?
5-
What does Dimmesdale answer to Pearl's question about the scaffold?
6.
Who is the leech?
7.
Who joins Dimmesdale on the scaffold?
8.
How does Dimmesdale react to Chillingworth's suggestion of confession?
9.
Who is the surgeon in Boston before Chillingworth arrives?
10.
What does Pearl ask of Dimmesdale while they are on the scaffold at night?
11.
Dimmesdale thinks his shriek on the scaffold will awaken the whole town- Who does it awaken?
12.
What does Chillingworth suggest Dimmesdale do?
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13.
What odd characteristic has Dimmesdale developed?
14.
How has Chillingworth changed?
15.
What do you think Chillingworth has discovered when he looks at Dimmesdale's chest?
16-
Why has Dimmesdale come to hate himself?
17. How many years have passed since Hester first stood on the scaffold?
18.
While Dimmesdale is being tortured by Chillingworth and his health is failing, what is happening to his
reputation as a minister?
19.
Why does Dimmesdale seek Chillingworth's help?
2A.
What do the townspeople think about the meteor?
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The $carlet Letter: Chapters 9-12
At age seven, Peal shows a remarkable amount of intuition. How is this intuition shown when she
statds to her mother, "Come away, Mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! He
hath got hold of the minister already."
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The Scarlet Letter: Ghapters 13-16
iomplete.
Review
1. What does Pearl do with the seaweed?
2.
How does Chillingworth feel he helped Dimmesdale?
3.
What is Hester's reputation in Boston within and after Ch. 13?
4.
Describe Hester at the beginning of chapter 13.
5.
What is the brook a symbol of?
6.
What does Hester say about the scarlet letter?
7.
What does Hester think has caused this deterioration in Dimmesdale?
What has Pearl heard?
ln Hester's view, who has betrayed the most, she or Chillingworth?
10.
What responsibility does Hester feel for Dimmesdale's condition?
11.
What does Chillingworth discover about himself?
12.
What is Hester's opinion of Dimmesdale's condition?
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13.
How has Chillingworth changed?
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What story does Pearl want to hear?
15.
Why does Hester want to talk to Chillingworth?
16. How is the sunlight a symbol?
17.
What two questions does Pearl want answered?
18.
With whom does Pearlwant to play?
19.
What is something Pearl does to show her mean streak?
20.
How does Hester feel about Chillingworth?
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The Scarlet Letter: Ghapters 13-16
What is the symbolic suggestion when Pearl creates and wears a green letter A?
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The Scarlet Letter: Ghapters 17-20
'omplete.
Review
1- Name two things Dimmesdale wants to do but does not do?
2.
What happens to Hester when Pearl is happy again?
3.
What change occurs in Dimmesdale?
4.
Why is Pearl upset when she sees her mother and Dimmesdale in the forest?
5-
How does Hester now look when she makes a change to her scarlet letter?
6.
What decision is made at the end of Chapter 17?
7.
Where do Hester and Dimmesdale decide to go?
8.
What is Pearl a symbol of?
9.
What secret does Hester share with Dimmesdale?
10.
How does Hester change when she adjusts the scarlet letter to better suit Pearl?
11.
What have been Hester's teachers?
12.
When Dimmesdale kisses Pearl. what does she do?
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13.
How does Hester respond to Dimmesdale's reaction upon hearing about the secret she kept from him?
A.
What does Dimmesdale tell Chillingworth when he returns home after being in the forest with Hester?
15.
How does Dimmesdale feel when he decides to leave?
16.
When willthey leave?
17.
What does Hester do with her scarlet letter?
18.
What is the one sin worse than hypocrisy?
19.
Why are they to leave on that daY?
20.
How does Dimmesdale respond to the secret Hester shares with him?
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The Scarlet Letter: Ghapters 17-20
What symbolic interpretation can you make from the incident in which Hester removes her scarlet
retter and her cap? Relate this to her outward changes at that moment,
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The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 21-24
Complete.
Review
1. What does Mistress Hibbins sav about Dimmesdale?
2.
What does Chillingworth do when he sees Dimmesdale pause near Hester?
3.
What question does Pearl ask her mother about Dimmesdale?
4.
What happens to Dimmesdale after he reveals "it"?
5.
Who comes to Hester's cottage?
6.
What message does the captain send with Pearl?
7.
Who is seen talking to the captain of the ship?
B.
What does Hester do after she leaves?
9.
What does Dimmesdale do after he pauses near Hester?
10.
Where is Hester buried?
11.
What is the market place like on Election Day?
12.
What is Dimmesdale's reasoning for revealing his guilt a.6'cordifg to the people who say there rsn't
mark?
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13.
What is the moral of the novel?
14.
How does the minister appear after the sermon?
15.
When Hester returns to the cottaqe, how is she the same?
16.
What is the subiect of the sermon?
17.
How does Dimmesdale behave at the orocession?
18.
What news does the captain tell Hester?
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20.
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What were the different views regarding Dimmesdale's revelation of the letter A on his chest?
How did the town feel about the minister's sermon?
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The Scarlet Letter: Chapters 21-24
How does the mood of the people in the last scaffold scene differ from that in the first scene? Think
about the details of their behavior and dress in both scenes.