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This character is tall and beautiful.
Who is Hester Prynne?
100
This is the sin Hester has committed.
What is adultery?
100
This is the location of Hester's house.
What are the outskirts of Boston?
100
When this comes out, so does the truth.
What is the sun?
100
This title of chapter one refers to the entrance to a building.
What is The Prison Door?
200
He is deformed in appearance.
Who is Roger Chillingworth?
200
This is the color that Hester embroiders around the edges of her letter.
What is gold?
200
This is the location where Hester is brought out of at the beginning of Chapter 2.
What is the prison?
200
This character is often compared to the Grim Reaper.
Who is Chillingworth?
200
Chapter six is named after the youngest character.
What is Pearl?
300
This Biblical parable is how Pearl got her name.
What is the Pearl of Great Price?
300
This is what Pearl does to frighten away the children throwing mud at her mother.
What is run and scream/growl at them?
300
This characters house is cold and unfeeling, just like he is.
Who is Governor Bellingham?
300
Chillingworth is often called this blood-sucking worm.
What is a leech?
300
This chapter title describes Hester at her job.
What is Hester at her Needle (Ch. 5)?
400
This character is asked to convince Hester to name the father of her baby on the scaffolding.
Who is Arthur Dimmesdale?
400
This is what Hester sees reflected in her daughter's eyes when Pearl grabs at the Scarlet Letter.
What is a demon?
400
This is where Chillingworth interviews Hester.
What is her prison cell?
400
Dimmesdale covers his heart to keep these private.
What are his secrets?
400
The title of Chapter 3 describes what happens between Chillingworth and Hester when he arrives in Boston.
What is The Recognition?
500
This is the profession Chillingworth sets up for himself when he arrives in Boston.
What is a physician?
500
Hester is never allowed to touch these garments for her embroidery business.
What are bridal clothes?
500
This is the location where Pearl is the wildest and most free to be herself.
What is the forest?
500
Pearl sees this as distorted when she is in the governer's mansion.
What is her reflection?
500
Chapter 10's title describes the relationship between Chillingworth and Dimmesdale.
What is The Leech and His Patient?