English Scarlet letter quiz
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Why was the doctor called to Hester in the first place | The jailer was afraid that she was in emotional state that she would harm her child or herself. Even Punishment couldn't straighten her out |
| Name of the jailer | Master Brackett |
| What did Pearl's pain in the jail that called for Chillingsworth's treatment symbolize? | Hester's breast milk was transferring Hester's pain into the baby. Moral Agony. |
| Why was Chillingworth staying in the Jail? | The indians and the magistrates still hadn't decided the price for his ransom. |
| Why did Hester not want originally give the baby Chillingworth's medicine | Because she thought he would poison the baby in order to take revenge on Hester for cheating. Chillingsworth would rather have her live with the embarrassment however as revenge. |
| What became Chillingworth's main goal for revenge | Find Hester's partner and have his way with him |
| What agreement does hester make with Chilllingsworth | That she will not reveal his true identity just as she has kept her mates but She believes she has just made a deal with the devil from the forest. But Chillingsworth doesn't want Hester's soul but her lovers |
| What would the puritan kids be taught by the display of hester? | She was the child of good parents, the mother of a baby that would grow to womanhood; she had once been innocent herself. But now she would become the embodiment of sin, and her infamy would be the only monument over her grave. |
| Why didn't hester leave Boston after her jail time was over? | his place, she told herself, had been the scene of her guilt, so it should be the scene of her punishment. Maybe the torture of her daily shame would finally cleanse her soul and make her pure again. |
| What did the kids that snuck up to Hester's house think of her | That she was a monster, they did not understand what the scarlet letter meant but they knew that it was evil. |
| What was hester's main profession | Needlework |
| Who had a demand for hester's work | Hester's needlework was seen on the collar of the Governor; military men wore it on their sashes; the minister on his armband. It decorated babies' caps and was buried with the dead. |
| What key item of clothing did hester not make | Wedding gowns or veils |
| What did Hester do with her money | Gave it to charity |
| what did Hester do in her free time | Make garments for the poor |
| Why did Hester do this work for the poor | To Hester Prynne it might have been a way of expressing, and therefore of calming, the passions of her life. But like all other joys, she rejected it as sin. Rather than demonstrating true repentance, this cheerless blending of morality with insignificant matters, I'm afraid, exposed something deeply wrong with her conscience. |
| How did Hester react to adversity of the insults of the poor and her rich clients | she never responded to these attacks, except that her cheeks would slowly turn red before the blush faded into the depths of her heart. She was patient—a true martyr. Yet she kept herself from praying for her enemies for fear that, despite her best intentions, her words of forgiveness might twist themselves into a curse. |
| How did Hester handle the adversity towards her scarlet letter | She often felt that she couldn't keep herself from covering the symbol with her hand, though she always restrained herself in the end. Familiar eyes brought their own kind of pain. Their cool stares of recognition were intolerable. In short, Hester Prynne always had the dreadful sense of human eyes upon the letter. No callus grew over the spot. Instead, the wound became more sensitive through her daily torture. |
| What kept Hester from revealing her mate | She believed that she would only cause more guilt to her conscious and no gain from it. She wants him to clear his own conscious and allow for him to have the chance |
| What was the scarlet letter to the people | A hellfire that burned with her sin all day and night |
| Why was Pearl's name Pearl | For she had come at a great price. A shine of beauty in a troubled situation |
| Why was Hester afraid of death | Her sin would not allow her to remove herself from her pain but rather endure more |
| What was controdictory of pearl | She was magnificently beautiful on the outside and innocent looking ;however, on the inside, she was tempered, disordered, and wild |
| How does pearl reflect her mother | How could something so beautiful and innocent on the outside commit such nasty things. |
| Why could Hester not beat Pearl | She was too innocent on the outside and Hester could never punish someone for their sins when she had committed the worst of the worst |
| What creature did pearl remind hester of | like a fairy that, after playing its tricks for a while on the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile. |
| How would pearl's life reflect her mothers in the future | Pearl would never be able to escape her mother's sin for she was a product of sin |
| Why happened when Baby Pearl touched the letter | Hester could not feel safe around her child for the moment she found out what her mother had done she too would be in disapproval |
| What hester begin to see in pearl's eyes | It was a demonic face, full of gleeful malice. It resembled a face she knew quite well, though that face rarely smiled, and it was never malicious. It was as if an evil spirit had possessed the child, and just then peeked out to mock Hester. After this, Hester was often tortured by a less-intense recurrence of the illusion. |
| What does Pearl say when asked who sent her here | She claims she doesn't have a heavenly father and she had not been made at all but had been plucked by her mother off the wild rose bush that grew by the prison door. |
| What is pearl compared to in terms of the scarlet letter | Scarlet fever, the symbol in real life |
| What is hester's argument in keeping pearl | That Pearl could be taught against her ways and pearl acts as a constant reminder of Hester to stay in orderr |
| What does Dimmesdale say in support of Hester | This child, born of its father's guilt and its mother's shame, came from the hand of God to work in many ways upon the mother's heart, which pleads so passionately to keep her. This girl was meant as a blessing—the one blessing in her mother's life! She was meant as a punishment too, just like her mother said. |
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