Historical Figures
Location
Plot
Themes
Characters
100
What entity dominated the culture of that time?
What is the Puritans
100
What religious colony was the book centered around?
What is the Puritans
100
Who is Pearl's Father?
What is Reverend Dimmesdale
100
The experience of Hester and Dimmesdale recalls the story of these two people out of Genesis whose sin also caused suffering and expulsion.
What is Adam and Eve
100
What was the letter of the patch that Hester Prynne received?
What is A
200
What was the goal of the Puritans at that time?
What is to expand their influence
200
Where did the story take place?
What is Boston, Massachusetts
200
Where was Roger Chillingworth when Hester became pregnant?
What is England
200
Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin results in this, making it one of the themes of the novel.
What is knowledge
200
How is Pearl related to Hester Prynne?
What is her daughter
300
Who did the author compare the main character to?
What is Anne Hutchinson
300
What time period was the story placed in?
What is mid 17th Century
300
What do Hester and Dimmesdale decide to do in the forest?
What is leave for Europe
300
Pearl thinks this character is the “Black Man” because he will not publicly acknowledge her.
What is Dimmesdale
300
What does Reverened Dimmesdale struggle with after the affair with Hester Prynne?
What is guilt
400
Where did Anne Hutchinson go after they banished her?
What is New York
400
When did Nathaniel Hawthorne actually write The Scarlet Letter?
What is the 1850's
400
How does Hester support herself?
What is needlework
400
Hester stays in the Massachusetts colony and does not try to remove her letter because removing her letter or running away represents this.
What is society's power over an individual
400
Why did Roger Chillingworth send Hester Prynne to America?
What is to settle affairs in Europe
500
What was one of the reasons for Anne Hutchinson’s Banishment?
What is she educated women and/or taught that clergy wasn't needed
500
What is the importance of Hawthorne writing about Hester Prynne in the PURITAN colony?
What is it allows the reader to fully understand the magnitude of her sin during that time
500
Why did Roger Chillingworth come to the settlement?
What is to get revenge on Pearl's father?
500
The people of the community misinterpret Dimmesdale’s anguish as this.
What is holiness
500
Where did the narrator discover old manuscripts that told the story of Hester Prynne?
What is in the attic of his job
M
e
n
u