Quotes
Themes
Symbols
Symbols II
Characters
100
Who says "Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!" (Hawthorne 61)? Who is the woman?
Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale to Hester Prynne
100
The wild rosebush growing beside the prison door.
Nature v. Civilization
100
Pearl is dressed in red to reflect what symbol?
The Scarlet Letter
100
Who is the leech?
Roger Chillingworth
100
This character is a witch.
Mistress Hibbins
200
Who says "The past is gone! Wherefore should we linger upon it now? See! With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!" (Hawthorne 184)? Who are they speaking to?
Hester Prynne to Arthur Dimmesdale
200
Pearl makes her own dolls and games because she is never welcome to play with the town's children.
Alienation
200
The "Black Man" is a term for who?
Satan (or occasionally Roger Chillingworth)
200
The wild place outside of Boston.
The forest
200
This character has eyes like "small black [mirrors.]"
Pearl
300
Who said "Hadst thou sought the whole earth over...there was no one place so secret - no high place nor lowly place where thou couldst escape me - save on this very scaffold!" (Hawthorne 231)? Who are they saying it to?
Roger Chillingworth to Arthur Dimmesdale
300
Roger Chillingworth's main purpose for staying in Boston during the novel.
Revenge
300
Why is Pearl named after a pearl?
She is her mother's only treasure, she was bought at a great price.
300
Hester's "A" stands for what two words?
Adulterer and Able
300
This character owns a house that glitters like “Aladdin’s Palace.”
Governor Bellingham
400
Who says "Come away, Mother! Come away or yonder Black Man will catch you!" (Hawthorne 120)? Who is the "Black Man" in this quote?
Pearl - Roger Chillingworth
400
The townsfolk getting all their fine lace sewn by Hester Prynne.
Hypocrisy
400
The meteor highlighted a letter "A" is the clouds. What two things did the "A" stand for?
Adultery and Angel
400
This is made of oak and iron and symbolizes the Puritan civilization.
The prison door
400
The narrator tell us Hester loses her beauty due to her loss of ...?
Passion
500
Who says "When the Black Man sees one of his own servants, signed and sealed, so shy of owning to the bond as is the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale, he hath a way of ordering matters so that the mark shall be disclosed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world!" (Hawthorne 220)? What event does it foreshadow?
Mistress Hibbins - Dimmesdale confessing on the scaffold
500
Roger Chillingworth poses as Dimmesdale's doctor even though he works to lengthen and worsen Dimmesdale's torment.
Appearance v. Reality
500
What must Pearl catch for herself?
Sunshine
500
This symbol showed Hester's and Pearl's reflections through the Puritan lens of view.
The suit of armor
500
This character develops a beard that drags the ground and has a “dark passion.”
Roger Chillingworth
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