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The Scarlet Letter Test Flashcards

1
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The novel begins where? What is the significance of this place?

A

Begins outside the Salem Jail

-The first things built by the Puritan’s

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What is the symbol of the rosebush related to?

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Passion

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What is Hester’s punishment to be?

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She is to stand upon the scaffold in town along with her child while wearing a scarlet letter A upon her clothing

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4
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Hester is shocked to discover who in town her first day on the scaffold?

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Her husband

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What does Chillingworth vow to do? How does he plan to do this?

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He vows to find out who the child’s father is

Looking into the mans heart

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What are the many symbols of the Scarlet Letter?

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Adultery
Able
Angel
Charity and Helpfulness

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What is Pearl’s function in the novel? How does Hawthorne reveal this?

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She is the living Scarlet Letter

Sufferning to her mother

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What point does Hawthorne try to make with the Pearl’s name?

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Hester is paying a high cost for having Pearl

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9
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Why is Hester’s housing choice symbolic?

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Border between puritan and morals-immorality of the woods

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Why is Chillingworth referred to as a leech? 2 reasons

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He is physician who at the time were still known to use leeches
He is living off of Dimmesdale and will eventually suck the life out of him

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What is the turning point for Chillingworth? How does he change? Give some evidence of this

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When He thinks he sees the A on Dimmesdale

He is evil
He starts being undercover-the Black Man

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How does the trip to the governor’s mansion further the idea of Pearl as the scarlet letter?

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Dressed in a scarlet red dress

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13
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What is the importance of Mistress Hibbins in the final few chapters of the novel?

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She connects all who are sinners

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How does Pearl connect her parents while playing in the graveyard?

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Throws Sticky burs at them

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How does Dimmesdale attempt to cope with his guilty conscious?

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Fasting, beating himself-his physical punishment

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16
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When does the reader become aware that Chillingworth is powerless as to the outcome of the novel?

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When the A crosses the sky when the governor dies

17
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When confronted by Pearl about the scarlet letter what transpires? Why is it significant?

A

Hester lies. she has never lied about the A before

18
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What is important about the sunshine that Pearl plays in, in the Forrest?

A

She can get in and Hester can’t.

Shows that Hester has slipped away

19
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What causes the death of Dimmesdale, Chillingworth,and Hester?

A

Guilt-Dimmesdale
Nothing to live for-Chillingworth
Old Age-Hester

20
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What are the circumstances surrounding Dimmesdale’s death?

A

Confesses, he admits he sins, the town does not believe him

21
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What becomes of Pearl?

A

She grows up and move to England and gets all of Chillingworth’s money

22
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Quaff

A

To drink

23
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Scruple

A

An ethical consideration or principle that inhabits action

24
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Berth

A

Safe Distance

25
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Clarion

A

A medieval trumpet with clear shrill tones

26
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Pathos

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An emotion of sympathetic pity

27
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What are the women in the courtyard upset about?

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they don’t approve Hester’s punishment

28
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What changes follow the meeting of Hester and Dimmesdale in the woods for Hester, DImeesdale, and Pearl?

A

Hester goes back to being passion
Dimmesdale changes
Pearl begins to accept her father

29
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What the plan for escaping from New England?How is it foiled?

A

to pay sailors

Chillingworth ended up being on the boat too

30
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Explain the significance of Pearls name.

A

She was of high cost

31
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Why does Hester appeal to Dimmesdale? What are some things that this encounter causes?

A

Hester asks him to please let her keep Pearl

The connection between Hester and Dimmesdale

32
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What does Pearl point out about the suffering of Hester and Dimmesdale?

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Hester is internal and Dimmesdale is external

33
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What are some of the changes that occur in Hester as she moves from passionate to logical thinker?

A

Stops acting on her feelings
A means Able
She prepares to challenge Chillingworth

34
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Lore

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Something that is taught;a lesson

35
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Intimations

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The act of making known

36
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Portent

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something that foreshadows a coming event;omen

37
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Sable

A

The color black

38
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Gules

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The heraldic color red

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