N. Hawthorne

Where was Hawthorne born?

• Boston

• New York

• Buffalo

• Salem

Where did Hawthorne attend university?

• Boston College

• Harvard

• Bowdoin

• New Castle

Hawthorne's grandfather is known for doing what?

• being part of the Boston Tea Party

• judge at Salem witch trials

• Pastor of transcendentalism

• the first

What year was the Scarlet letter published?

• 1818

• 1850

• 1845

• 1901

Hester Prynne

• is described as a witch

• has committed the worst of sins

• becomes purer and stronger thanks to her isolation

• fights to achieve her revenge

In Massachusetts, Hester

• gives birth to a son

• is condemned to wear a scarlet A that means avarice

• has a love affair with Cardinal Dimmesdale

• lives as an outcast

The novel explores

• the relationship between sin and money

• the joy of having a baby, from a woman's point of view

• the moral and psychological effects of sin

• the importance of Puritan virtues in American culture

Reverend Dimmesdale

• is passionate and impulsive

• stands for freedom and intuitiveness

• commits what the author considers the worst of all sins

• represents the passive side of human will

The Scarlet letter

• The story takes places in the town of Salem

• The novel is set in the Puritan New England of the 18th century

• The novel is set in the Puritan New England of the 17th century

• The narrator tells the reader he has found a scarlet cloth in the Salem Club House

The Scarlet Letter: Style

• The narrator never gives his opinion on the events narrated

• The novel's narrator is omniscient

• The author offers a realistic description of contemporary society

• The author is against the use of symbols