Chapters 1&2
The main character of the novel.
What is Hester Prynne?
What is Roger Chillingworth?
The place where the "interview" between Hester and Roger takes place.
What is the prison?
The name of Hester's child.
What is Pearl?
The year the Declaration of Independence was adopted.
What is 1776?
The type of building described in the first chapter.
What is a prison?
The name of the minister in charge of Hester's church.
What is Reverend Dimmesdale?
The stranger's profession.
What is a physician/doctor?
The literary device that Pearl represents.
What is symbolism?
The deepest place on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The plant that Hawthorne focused on during the first chapter.
What is a rosebush?
The name that Hester shouts when asked who the child's father is.
What is the Heavenly Father?
The stranger's reaction to Hester's crime. (Hint: How he feels about Hester, not the father.)
What is forgiveness?
The creature that Hester sometimes sees Pearl as.
What is an imp/fiend/demon?
The two city-states that fought in the Peloponnesian War.
What is Athens and Sparta?
The punishments given to Hester at the beginning of the novel. (Hint: There are two separate punishments.)
What is the scarlet letter and public humiliation?
The name of the structure that Hester is forced to stand on in front of the crowd.
What is a scaffold?
Hester's job.
What is sewing/dressmaking/tailoring?
The two words Hawthorne uses to describe Pearl's personality.
What is intelligent and unpredictable?
The year the first iPhone was released.
What is 2007?
The first thing that the town built after taking over the land.
What is the cemetery?
The reason Roger gives for being gone until now. (Hint: I am asking for the initial reason he disappeared from Hester's life.)
What is a shipwreck?
The way that Hester deals with her guilt and isolation.
What is charity work?
The two actions Pearl takes to avoid dealing with the other children of the town.
What is throwing rocks and not speaking?
The year that Google officially launched.
What is 1998?