"The Scarlet Letter" Ch. 1-3

What year is the novel set? 

• 1850
• 1622
• 1642
• 1786

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What is called the "black flower of civilized society": 

• The Devil
• Sin
• A Prison
• A Cemetary

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What two places do even Utopian societies establish early on? 

• Prison, School
• School, Cemetary
• Cemetary, Church
• Prison, Cemetary

The year in which Hawthorne published the novel: 

• 1642
• 1764
• 1850
• 1999

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A writer who "teaches a moral lesson" is said to be this: 

• Didactic
• Inspirational
• Encouraging
• Empathetic

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The piece of vegetation growing outside the prison door: 

• Murdock
• Rose Bush
• Pigweed
• Thorns

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The form of punishment that both Scripture and the statute book WOULD HAVE allowed for Hester? 

• Death
• The letter "A"
• Jail
• Public shaming

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The identity of the person who is called upon to speak to Hester from a "high place"

• John Wilson
• Governor Bellingham
• Arthur Dimmesdale
• Roger Chillingworth

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Where Chillingworth tells the townsperson he has been or why he was delayed in his arrival in the New World: 

• New England
• At the bottom of the Sea
• Studying in Amsterdam
• Held captive by Indians

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Chillingworth's most noteworthy identifying feature: 

• His penetrating eyes
• His misshapen shoulders
• His stern brow
• His outfit

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