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Dimmesdale
Vocabulary
General Questions
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- An adulterer - compassionate maternal figure - shamed and alienated
What is Hester Prynne.
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What new thought struck Dimmesdale at the end of the chapter?
What is confessing in public.
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How does Dimmesdale punish himself?
What is he whips himself.
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"The very fashion of his garments were ODIOUS in the clergyman's sight"
What is hatred.
100
With whom has Chillingworth been living before he appears in Boston?
What is Native Americans.
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- in seek of revenge - leech - deliberate destructions of others
What is Roger Chillingworth.
200
Who is the main focus on Chapter 11?
What is Dimmesdale.
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True or False: Chillingworth decides to publicly shame Dimmesdale
What is false.
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" Poor, FORLORN creature that he was. "
What is miserable.
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How does Hester support herself financially?
What is a seamstress.
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- eloquent and emotionally powerful speaker - spiritual guidance to others - committed sin
What is Arthur Dimmesdale.
300
What does Chillingworth keep doing to Dimmesdale?
What is he keeps playing mind games to make him confess.
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What does Dimmesdale repeatedly resolve to do that he keeps postponing?
What is publicly confess his sin.
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" was the anguish in his inmost soul, and the UNDISSEMBLED expression of it in his aspect"
What is to give false or misleading appearance to.
300
What mark can supposedly be seen on Dimmesdale’s chest?
What is a scarlet letter " A "
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- symbol of treasury - outcast - full of life and fearless
What is Pearl.
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What keeps Dimmesdale up in the middle of the night?
What is meditating upon his sin.
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Why doesn't Dimmesdale suspect Chillingworth of trying to ruin him?
What is he is too focused on himself.
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" To the untrue man, the whole universe is false - it is IMPALPABLE, - it shrinks to nothing within his grasp "
What is difficult for the mind to understand.
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What does Hester’s letter “A” eventually come to represent to the townspeople?
What is able.
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- said to be one of the most busy - held honorable and influential - historic figure
What is Governor Bellingham.
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What was in Mr. Dimmesdale secret lock and key closet?
What is a bloody scourge.
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What is congregation's opinion of Dimmesdale?
What is he is a model of holiness.
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" He thus typified the constant INTROSPECTION wherewith he tortured"
What is examination of one's own mental and emotional state.
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Where does the narrator first encounter Hester Prynne’s story?
What is he finds a manuscript in the attic of the Salem Custom-House.