Hester
Plot
Dimmesdale
Physical Symbols
Pearl
100
The reason Hester first resists Chillingsworth's attempts to give her child medicine.
What is fear of poisoning?
100

The two necessities, according to Hawthorne, every Puritan community must have. 

What is a prison and a graveyard?

100
The two necessities, according to Hawthorne, that the founders of a new colony must provide.
What are a prison and a graveyard?
100

The Black man

What is a symbol of evil

100

The significance of Pearl's name.

What is gained at a great price/her mother's greatest treasure?

200
This plant grows beside the prison where Hester is kept.
What is a Rosebush?
200

Where Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl meet late at night.

What is the scaffold?

200

Why Dimmesdale is so beloved by his congregation.

What is he understands the idea of sin?

200

The three places where the A is found

What is Hester's chest, the sky, and Dimmesdale's chest.

200
The first object which Pearl seems to be aware of as a child.
What is the scarlet letter?
300
The one occasion for which Hester is never asked to make clothing.
What is a wedding?
300

Why Dimmesdale and Chillingworth live together?

What is Dimmesdale's failing health and the communities concern about it?

300

The three ways Dimmesdale punishes himself for his sin.

What are whips himself, starves himself, and deprives himself of sleep?

300

The three meanings of the symbol A

What is adultery, angel and able?

300
The gesture of Reverend Dimmesdale's that Pearl repeatedly associates with her mother's scarlet letter?
What is putting his hand over his heart?
400

Why Hester decides to break her promise to Chillingworth.

What is Reverend Dimmesdale's failing health?

400

The way the townspeople interpret the comet (A) in the sky.

What is angel?

400

Dimmesdale's argument that allows Hester to keep Pearl.

What is she will be a constant reminder of her sin and keep her on a godly path?

400
Scaffold
What is a public display for sin and wrongdoing.
400

The material Pearl makes an A out of at the shore.

What is seaweed?

500
The townspeople eventually come to believe the A on Hester's breast stands for this.
What is Able?
500

The length of time Hester and Pearl must stand on the scaffold.

What three hours?

500

Dimmesdale's two sins in the novel.

What are adultery and lying (by omission)?

500

Pearl

What is the living A?

500

The response Pearl gives to the governor regarding where she came from.

What is plucked from the rosebush?