scarlet letter quizzes

Question 1

what is a beadle

Answer 1

jailor

Question 2

what does the rosebush symbolize

Answer 2

some sweet moral blossom

Question 3

where is hester punished?

For How long?

Answer 3

scaffold

3 hours

Question 4

why is hester compared to the divine maternity

Answer 4

Mary holding Jesus is the divine maternity.
To show contrast
to play Hester as a heroine

Question 5

example of irony in 1-5

Answer 5

verbal “These good people” - talking about the puritans, sarcasm
Dramatic- Dimmesdale is the father

Question 6

why does chillingworth take some of the blame for hester’s folly

Answer 6

he forced a beautiful youth into an unhappy marriage with a mishap pen elderly man

Question 7

how does hester earn a living

Answer 7

seamstres

Question 8

is hester required to stay in boston

Answer 8

nope

Question 9

what kind of child is pearl in the early part of the novel

Answer 9

she does not listen to others or her mother

she is not easily frightened and has courage

Question 10

how does hester dress pearl

Answer 10

dresses her like the scarlet letter

fashionably and standing out

Question 11

situational irony in the novel

Answer 11

chillingworth walks up after being gone for 2 years when hester is at the scaffold

Question 12

why does hester go to the governor’s house

Answer 12

to deliver a pair of gloves and to ask if the townsleaders are really going to take pearl from her

Question 13

who is at the house with the governor

Answer 13

reverend wilson, dimmesdale and chillingworth

Question 14

what is pearl’s answer to john wilson’s question “who made thee”

Answer 14

mother plucked me off one of the wild rosebushes that grows outside the prison door

Question 15

where does mistress hibbins invite hester as she leaves the governor’s house

Answer 15

to a party held in honor of the black man in the forest.

Question 16

what would hester have done if she lost pearl

Answer 16

went with mistress hibbins

Question 17

discussion between chillingworth and dimmesdale about weeds that were found growing out of a grave

Answer 17

chillingworth says the weeds grow out of the heart of someone who died with a confession. Dimmesdale says that some people do not confess because they would then not be able to do good before God

Question 18

what are the prickly burrs in chapter 10

Answer 18

pearl arranges them around the scarlet letter and throws one at dimmesdale

Question 19

what is chillingworths goal around chapter 10

Answer 19

to get dimmesdale to trust him

Question 20

describe the governor’s mansion

Answer 20

contains a big hall with a suit of armor standing in the hall. extravagant garden. elegant, fancy like Aladdin’s castle.

Question 21

describe pearl’s physical appearance

Answer 21

dressed in crimson like the scarlet letter

Question 22

3 things that pearl does that reflects her personality

Answer 22

she does not listen and will not answer questions correctly.
pearl speaks out of place or says inappropriate things like the black man has captured dimmesdale.
she stands up to the other children who attempt to bully her.

Question 23

4 main characters and where they are on hawthorne’s level of sin

Answer 23

Pearl -1 - innocent
Hester -2 - committed a sin of passion; not premeditated
Dimmesdale -3- commits adultery
chillingworth- 4- plots revenge against dimmesdale

Question 24

“I commit myself to the one true physician of the soul”

who is the physician? and who said it

Answer 24

dimmesdale said it

Christ

Question 25

who says “Look to it! I will not lose the child. Look to it.” and who is it directed to

Answer 25

hester says it to dimmesdale

Question 26

what is sunshine a symbol of

Answer 26

god’s approval

Question 27

what is shadows a symbol of

Answer 27

sin the devil, dimmesdale, and chillingworth

Question 28

“Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.”

who said it and who listened to it

Answer 28

Chillingworth said it

hester

Question 29

what does “The victim was forever on the rack” refer to

Answer 29

dimmesdale continuously punishes himself

Question 30

why is dimmesdale such a popular minister

Answer 30

he is a fellow sinner, preaches from his heart on the same level.

Question 31

what are vigils

Answer 31

fasting of sleep

Question 32

how does dimmesdale punish himself

Answer 32

vigils
beats himself with whip
fasts
carving of a on chest

Question 33

where does hester meet dimmesdale to talk to him

Answer 33

the forest

Question 34

why does hester meet dimmedale in the forest

Answer 34

she wants to tell dimmesdale the truth

Question 35

what happens when hester reaches into the sunshine that shines strongly on pearl

Answer 35

it fades away

Question 36

what does pearl play beside when pearl is talking to dimmesdale

Answer 36

by the trees so the black man doesn’t get her

Question 37

who says “ I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am”

Answer 37

Dimmesdale

Question 38

who says” Truth is the one virtue which I might have held fast, and did hold fast, through all extremity, save when thy good thy life thy fame were put in question

Answer 38

hester prynne

Question 39

who says “I cannot forgive thee”

Answer 39

dimmesdale

Question 40

“He has violated in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart” who said it and who is he

Answer 40

dimmesdale says it and chillingworth is the he

Question 41

who says “Preach, write, act, do anything save to lie down and die”

Answer 41

hester prynne

Question 42

who says “thou shalt not go alone”

Answer 42

hester

Question 43

who says “ what little bird of scarlet plumage may this be”

Answer 43

john wilson

Question 44

who says “you speak my friend, with a strange earnestness”

Answer 44

roger chillingworth

Question 45

who says “Is hester prynne the less miserable, think you, for that scarlet letter on her breast?”

Answer 45

roger chillingworth

Question 46

who says “there is nothing lost. We shall be friends again anon”

Answer 46

chillingworth

Question 47

who said “come good sir, and my dear friend, I pray you, let me lead you home”

Answer 47

chillingworth

Question 48

who says this and who is it directed to
“when we last spake together, now seven years ago, it was your pleasure to extort a promise of secrecy, as touching the former relation betwixt yourself and me”

Answer 48

hester to chillingworth

Question 49

who says “better he had died at once”

Answer 49

hester

Question 50

who says “It was myself, It was I, not less than he.. Why hast thou not avenged thyself”

Answer 50

hester

Question 51

who says “ I have left thee to the scarlet letter

Answer 51

chillingworth

Question 52

who says “Is the world then so narrow”

Answer 52

hester

Question 53

who says “but now, since I am irrevocably doomed where fore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culprit before his execution

Answer 53

dimmesdale

Question 54

who says “thanks be to him who hath led me hither

Answer 54

dimmesdale

Question 55

who says “may God forgive thee”

Answer 55

dimmesdale

Question 56

who says “I had been lost for ever. praised be his name! his will be done! farewell ! “

Answer 56

dimmesdale

Question 57

what does the brook symbolize

Answer 57

symbolizes pearl and the line of demarcation between hester and pearl
the brook babbles along

Question 58

“But now–since I am irrevocably doomed –wherefore should I not snatch the solace allowed to the condemned culrpit before his execution

Answer 58

dimmesdale says it