Symbols
Plot
Characters
Misc.
Vocabulary
100
Adultery.
What does the Scarlet "A" stand for?
100
The scafold.
What is the location of where Hester first sees Chillingworth?
100
Dimmesdale.
What is Hesters cheating lovers name?
100
The forest.
What is the location of the "Black Man"?
100
Alcohol
What is Firewater?
200
The last glimpse of beauty when a prisoner comes into the jail and the first glimpse of beauty when a prisoner leaves jail.
What is rose on the bush outside of the jail stand for?
200
Hester is pregnant.
What is Hesters reasoning for not being put to death?
200
An elf child.
What is Pearl deceived as?
200
A witch!
What is the governess?
200
A worthless or contemptible woman, a prostitute.
What is baggage?
300
It stands for adultery.
What is the "A" in the sky?
300
To separate them.
What is the plan for Hester and Pearl made by the congregation?
300
Brands an "A" on it.
What does Chillingworth do to his chest?
300
He's a doctor.
What does Chillingworth do for the colony?
300
Studies word derivation.
What is an Etymologist?
400
It means she is freed from her bounds now, and is beautiful again.
What is the meaning of Hester taking off her hat and letting down her hair?
400
To leave with Pearl and live in England together.
What is Dimmesdales and Hesters plan?
400
The towns people didn't think that it was necessary anymore.
What is the feeling towards the "A" later in the book?
400
The death of the "angel man".
What do people think the "A" in the sky stands for?
400
Of keen mind, shrewd.
What is sagacity?
500
Pearl feels betrayed.
What is the reaction of Pearl when she sees her mother with her "A" on the ground?
500
Gets married to an aristocrat and establishes a family of her own.
What does Pearl do while they are living in England?
500
The Devil.
What do the towns people believe is Pearls father?
500
Salem and Concord, Massachusetts. In the late 1840's.
What is the year and location of where this book was written?
500
To endure with life or renew life, animate.
What is vivify?
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