Character-istics
Hawthorne's Puritan Society
Quotes
Symbols / Themes
Box of Chocolates
100
This character was considered a "half-fledged angel of judgment -- whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation."
Who is Pearl?
100
The city where the novel takes place.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
100
Fill in the blank: "Mother," said little Pearl, "the _________ does not love you."
What is sunshine?
100
These are a symbol of a hideous secret or unconfessed sin.
What are ugly black weeds?
100
The amount of time elapsed between the first and last scaffold scenes.
What is 7 years?
200
Mistress Hibbins is this character's sister.
Who is Governor Bellingham?
200
The penalty of adultery in Puritan society.
What is death?
200
The character whose "former aspect of an intellectual and studious man, calm and quiet, ...had altogether vanished and been succeeded by an eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look."
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
200
The theme represented by the location of Hester's cottage.
What is isolation/alienation from society?
200
When this person died the townspeople believed he had ascended up to heaven.
Who is Governor Winthrop?
300
At the beginning of the novel, one of the few things we know about Chillingworth is this deformity.
What is his uneven shoulders?
300
The area of the community where the scaffold is located.
What is the market place?
300
This character said, "Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness for him; for, believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee, on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life."
Who is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale?
300
Pearl associates Chillingworth with this symbol of evil.
What is the Black Man?
300
In what year was this book published?
What is 1850?
400
Despite all her goodwill to the poor and society in general, Hester was never called upon to use her extraordinary needlework skills for this occasion.
What is a wedding / creating a wedding veil?
400
The holiday on which Puritan mood brightened and "appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction."
What is Election Day?
400
Fill in with the appropriate name: "Once in my life I met _________!" said her mother. "This scarlet letter is his mark!"
Who is the Black Man?
400
The three things the scarlet letter represented over the course of the novel.
What are adultery, angel, and able?
400
The Surveyor of the Salem Custom House whose documents contained the package containing the scarlet letter.
Who is Mr. Jonathan Pue?
500
This character was asked to examine Pearl "and see whether she hath had such Christian nurture as befits a child of her age."
Who is Master Wilson?
500
According to Hawthorne, what are the two necessities of a new colony?
What are a cemetery and a prison?
500
The translation of Hester and Dimmesdale's tombstone: "ON A FIELD, SABLE, THE LETTER A, GULES."
What is "On a field of black, the letter A, in scarlet" ?
500
These are two representations of Dimmesdale's sin.
What are a mark upon his chest, Pearl's physical appearance, and the gesture of keeping his hand upon his heart?
500
Pearl believes this is where she came from.
What is being plucked off a rosebush?
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