Characters
This character was once a prosperous merchant but lost his wealth on a scheme or investment.
Who is Mr. Medbourne?
This person was an American short story writer who was born and raised in Salem, Massachusetts and wrote "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment".
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
This story is told in _________________ point of view.
What is first-person point of view?
True or False: Dr. Heidegger participated in the experiment, too (of drinking the elixir).
What is false?
This character "wasted his best years" and now suffered from gout and "other torments of soul and body."
Who is Colonel Killigrew?
Dr. Heidegger's dusty and cobwebbed study, sometime around 1837, near sunset.
What is the setting (of the story)?
What is a skeleton?
True or False: The four guests were just as foolish after reliving their youth (whether real or perceived) as the first time around.
What is true?
This character "was a ruined politician, a man of evil fame, and made...obscure instead of infamous."
Who is Mr. Gasciogne?
This is an external conflict in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment".
What is person vs. technology? OR What are persons introduced to the fountain of youth?
This is the climax of the short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment".
What is the fight for the Widow's attention resulting in the vase shattering?
This means "calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments or accomplishments" or "impressive by reason of age."
What is venerable?
This character was a "great beauty in her day; but, for a long while past, she had lived in deep seclusion on account of certain scandalous stories which had prejudiced the gentry of the town against her."
Who is the Widow Wycherly?
What is person vs. nature? OR What are humans facing old age (nature)?
What is an allusion?
"Before you drink, my respectable friends,...it would be well...you should draw up a few general rules for your guidance,...Think what a sin and shame it would be, if with your peculiar advantages, you should not become patterns of virtue and wisdom to all the young people of the age!"
This quote means that...
What is it would be wise to learn from the past and teach that to the younger generations?
This protagonist was a "very strange old gentleman" who had invited his four friends to his study to try out an experiment while he documented the results.
Who is Dr. Heidegger?
This is an internal conflict in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment".
What is person vs. self? OR What are the four characters facing their same bad habits and choices from their youth?
The elixir or drink from the Fountain of Youth is real.
What is, we don't know? It is ambiguous--there are clues indicating both its illusion or reality in the story.
This is the ending of the story.
What is the four guests decide to travel to Florida to acquire more water from the Fountain of Youth?