Gender Roles
What was a woman's main expected role in a colonial family?
What are wives and mothers?
What was a common type of work women did from home?
What is sewing and weaving?
Who held more religious power in Puritan Massachusetts — males or females?
Who are males?
What rights were men in colonial America allowed that women were not?
What are property and leadership positions?
How were women’s educational opportunities limited?
What is the fact that girls often received less education than boys?
Why were women expected to learn skills like sewing?
What is to clothe their family?
What was one major industry where women worked during colonial times?
What is textile production?
What happened to anyone who questioned how the puritans taught or enforced the scripture?
What are being publicly shamed and banished from the colony?
Could married women make major legal decisions independently from their husbands? Yes or no?
What is no?
What is ironic about why the public wants Hester to reveal Pearl’s father’s name?
What is the idea that they want to give him closure and understanding, rather than punishing him as well like Hester?
If girls did go to school, what were they taught?
What are reading and writing skills, basic housekeeping, and etiquette?
What were the women who worked for other families in their homes called?
What are domestic servants?
In the Puritan colony of Massachusetts Bay, which woman argued that faith, not just hard work, allowed for Salvation?
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
What political activity was reserved for men in colonial America?
What is voting?
What is ironic about the fact that they want to end Hester’s life of motherhood by taking Pearl away?
What is the idea that motherhood is one of the primary virtues and expectations of colonial American women?
What qualities were colonial women expected to have?
What are obedience, modesty, respectfulness, and being hardworking?
What is unique about how Hester’s scarlet letter was completed in relation to women’s traditional domestic roles?
What was the main Puritan punishment of adultery that people were surprised that Hester did NOT receive?
What is hanging (death penalty)?
What could widowed women do with their property?
What are owning, managing, and inheriting property independently?
How were ideas like Anne Hutchinson’s received when they were conveyed by men?
What is the fact that they were heavily considered and largely accepted?
How does Hester’s personality conflict with the expectations generally placed on Puritan women?
What are her independence, outspoken nature, and willingness to question Puritan society?
What is ironic about Hester’s work as a seamstress after her release from prison in the public eye?
What is the fact that she is viewed as one of the most excellent seamstresses, with her garments being worn all over, but she is still perceived as dehumanized and purely sinful by the public?
How was dehumanization used in Puritan public shaming?
What is the practice of people being no longer thought of as people; only purely as the sin they committed?
What legal doctrine places wives under legal matters under their husband’s control?
What is coverture?
How did Puritan society respond to Dimmesdale's confession of sin?
What is the fact that they were even more supportive of him in his "saintly" religious endeavors?