Characters
Punished for committing adultery and has to wear the Scarlet Letter
Who is Hester?
A symbol of adultery (sin)
What is the Scarlet Letter?
Where was Chillingworth before he came to the settlement?
What is with the Native Americans?
The setting of the story
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
What does Pearl want from Dimmesdale?
What is the truth and a kiss in public?
The child of Hester is described as an elf child.
Who is Pearl?
What symbolizes the devil?
What is the Black Man?
How does Dimmesdale punish himself?
What is vigils and whipping?
What century is the story of Hester Prynne set in?
What is the 1600s?
Pearl refers to Chillingworth as who?
What is the Black Man?
Hester's husband who is described as a "leech" and wants revenge on Hester's lover.
Who is Chillingworth?
What symbolizes hope?
What is the Rose Bush?
What is Hester's job?
What is a seamstress?
Where does Hester show up the most in the novel?
What is the scaffold?
How does the Black Man collect souls?
What is collecting blood? He is described as a leech and leeches like to suck on blood.
The reverend of the town and the father of Hester's child
Who is Dimmesdale?
God's platform on the Day of Judgment
What is the Scaffold?
How Hester and Dimmesdale plan to escape the state that they live in?
What is boarding a ship to Europe?
Near the end of the novel, what does Hester's letter "A" come to mean to the townspeople?
What is able?
What happens to Chillingworth at the end of the novel?
What is withering away and dies shortly after Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold and reveals his "A"?
A widow who lives with her brother (Governor Bellingham) and rumored to be a witch
Who is Mistress Hibbins?
Symbolizes happiness and virtue
What is the Sun?
Why doesn't Pearl recognize her mother after Hester's meeting with Dimmesdale in the forest?
What is Hester removing her scarlet letter?
What setting best represents truth?
What is the forest?
What becomes of Pearl at the end of the novel?
What is that we believe that she married a rich man and has a family? We assume her to be happy.