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Scarlet Letter
Scarlet Letter Review 4 Kirkland
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| who found strength in punishment | Hester |
| who made fun of the "A" | Pearl |
| who punished himself more than the others | Dimmesdale |
| who lived for evil | chillingworth |
| who encouraged the confession | john wilson |
| who often went to the forest | Mistress Hibbins |
| What is the setting | Boston, 17th century |
| who is a young married woman who has child from an adulterous relationship? | Hester Prynne |
| Does Hester promise to keep her husbands name a secret? | yes |
| does Hester's husband demand the death penalty for her? | no |
| Do Hester's neighbors help with her baby? | no |
| who is hester's husband? Is he identified as her husband to the people? | Roger Chillingworth, no |
| Does Arthur Dimmesdale think Hester is evil for not naming her lover? | no |
| did Dimmesdale have tuberculosis? | no |
| Chillingworth appears to become friends with who? | Dimmesdale |
| Does Pearl's father punish himself for not acknowledging sin? | yes |
| Does pearl dress in dark or bright clothing? | bright |
| does pearl live up to her name by being a spotlessly perfect girl? | no |
| does Hester's lover stand on scaffold at night? Do many people see him? | yes; no |
| Does Hester's husband find out who Pearl's father is? | yes |
| Does Hester keep her promise to her husband? | no, she reveals his name to her lover |
| Does Pearl know what exactly the scarlet leter represent? | no |
| do the lovers meet in the forest with the black man? | no |
| how does Hester feel when she removes the scarlet letter? | relieved |
| 3 good things Chillingworth did: | 1. doctors Hester & Pearl 2. influences Dimmesdale to confess 3. forgives Hester |
| 2 indications that Pearl liked the minister | 1. she kept asking him to stand on the scaffold with them 2. took his hand and rubbed it on her face |
| what unites the lovers in death? | tombstone |
| how was Pearl changed by experiences in the novel? | by her experiences she will be able to feel pain and joy in her life; she will get to live with the world, not against it |
| how do the people react to the confession at the end? | they are in disbelief because they looked up to Dimmesdale |
| what do hester and her husband decide to do? | leave boston |
| who books passage for Europe and on a ship docked for boston? | roger |
| does Hester cherish the scarlet letter as a gift from her husband? | no |
| does the mister's election sermon criticize the other minister? | no |
| who leaves their estate to Pearl? | Roger |
| Does Hester leave Boston? | yes |
| Is Roger buried next to Hester's lover? | no |
| How do Boston's magistrates show mercy to Hester? | they don't give her the death penalty |
| what causes Hester's emotional pain when she's on the scaffold? | public ignominy |
| does hester's jailer ask Roger to attend her and her child? | yes |
| what is hesters great skill? | needle work |
| what is given in a will to the child of the adulteress? | an estate |
| what symbolizes Hester's sin and shame? | the scarlet letter |
| who dies on the same night that Hester's lover climbs the scaffold? | Governor Winthrop |
| what represents evil or Satan to the puritans? | the black man |
| what apparently triggers hallucinations in Dimmesdale | meteor shower |
| who is the clergy man that admires Hester's pastor | wilson |
| what declares death as an appropriate punishment for adultery | the puritan punishment code |
| who insists that hester replace the scarlet letter when she removes it? | pearl |
| who is a witch? | mistress hibbins |
| where does hester undergo humiliation? | the marketplace |
| who stands with roger in the opening scene? | an indian |
| what is the source of the supposed evidence which is the basis for the story? | custom house |
| how does chillingworth react to the confession at the end of the story? | he begins to shrivel up and all of the evil is drained out of him because he knows the identity of Hester's lover which has consumed his entire reason to live |
| why don't hester and dimmesdale get married at the beginning of the novel? | hester was already married |
| why don't hester and dimmesdale get married at the end of the novel? | dimmesdale died |
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