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WorksheetsAdvanced Placement-The Scarlet Letter
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
What does the rose outside of the prison door symbolize in the story?
Beauty in the midst of darkness.
Hester Prynne and Pearl
The towns people
What is the most likely reason that Hawthorn begins chapter II with line one?
To show the way of life for the Puritans
To give the image of the jail
To allow the reader to imagine the setting.
To introduce Hester to the reader.
What is significant about Hester's child's name?
She is viewed by most as a jewel.
She is precious to her mother.
She is a gifted child.
There is no significance.
There is always something in a name. What is significant about Chillingsworth's name as it relates to his character?
He is sick mentally.
He is dangerously misunderstood.
He is a witch doctor.
He is dark and mysterious.
What do you learn about the Puritan women from reading the story?
Many do not have pure hearts.
Many are mean, jealous, spiteful, and not so easy on the eye.
The are hypocrites.
All of the above.
Where does Hester stand each day as a spectacle for her sin?
She stands in the the middle of the market place.
She stands on the scaffold.
She stands in the prison door.
She stands in the window of her prison cell.
Why does Hester appear in awe when she sees Rodger in the crowd of onlookers?
She thought her husband was dead.
Rodger looks so different.
Rodger was so much older.
He scared her.
Why does Pearl tell her mother that she has no "Heavenly Father"?
She does not know her real father.
She thinks that it is silly.
She does not believe because people are so cruel to her and her mother.
She is a devil.
How does Hester support herself and her child?
She cooks for people.
She sews for people in the town.
She receives handouts from others.
The government takes care of Hester and her child.
Why is it inappropriate for Hester to work for a new bride?
She is evil.
She has sinned by committing adultery.
It is not inappropriate.
She is not married.
According to the text, how does Hester spend her time as a lonely woman.
She works for others in the town.
She takes her child out on the beach.
She volunteers to help others.
She spends her time with her child and the Rev.
Why did Hester visit the governor's mansion other than to take his gloves.
She heard a rumor that some had proposed to have her child taken away from her.
She knew that he liked her, and she wanted to visit to find favor.
She went to clean his house.
She was having tea with his wife.
According to the narrator, which character is referred to as an "imp"?
Hester
Billingham
Pearl
Dimmesdale
What is Hester's response when she is asked to divulge the name of her child's father?
"It is my husband's child."
"Thou shall never know."
"I cannot tell you."
"i do not know."
When the narrator says, "A beautiful flower growing out of the sinful soil". Who is he/she referring?
Hester
Pearl
He does not use these words.
The Virgin Mary
Why does the narrator compare Hester to the Virgin Mary?
She is pure and innocent.
She is a victim of her circumstance.
She is persecuted by society for having her child.
There is no comparison, and the narrator shows this.
Why is Pearl denied the right to play with "Christian" children?
Pealr was born into sin.
Pearl is viewed as demonic.
She is not "Christian".
Pear does not have a "Heavenly Father".
How does Pearl play?
Pearl plays alone with imaginary friends.
Pearl plays with her mother and father.
Pearl plays with children who live near her and their parents do not care about her situation.
Pearl is not allowed to play outside.
How could Hester be viewed as a feminist in her own time.
Hester was arrogant.
Hester could not be viewed as a feminist.
Hester defied the regular rules of her time for woman, and she survived her circumstances.
Hester was defiant and arrogant.
Initially people are happy that the doctor is in town to take care of Dimmesdale; however, they later view as:
One who lacks medical skills
An evil devil
As a crazy man
As one who does not know medicine
Chillingworth urges the towns leaders to:
Put Dimmesdale away because he is crazy.
Allow him to live with Dimmesdale to take care of his health...
To ignore Dimmesdale's health...
To make Dimmisdale marry Hester...
Dimmesdale refuses to marry
Anyone who came to him for a ceremony...
Hester
Any single woman who was interested in him...
Anymore couples in the church...
Dimmesdale gives sermons on the topic of:
Adultery
Marriage
Sin
Submissiveness
Hester and Chillingworth argue over:
His torture of Dimmesdale
Pearl's upbringing
Her telling people who her child's father is...
Over her wearing her "A"
When Dimmesdale screams out on the scaffold, who is he mistaken for by those who hear him?
Witches
Coyotes
Chillingworth
The devil
Why does Pearl refuse to join her mother and father by the brook?
She is afraid of Dimmesdale.
She does not see the "A" on her mother's chest.
She does not want to be around other people; she is not use to it.
She is afraid of Dimmesdale.
What does the meteor that Dimmesdale see while standing on the scaffold symbolize.
His sin for adultery.
His metal illness.
It symbolizes the "A" that Hester wears and his sin of not confessing.
It symbolizes Pearl.
All are themes in the novel, The Scarlet Letter except?
Sin
The human condition
Evil
The prison door
What happens to Hester and Pearl after Dimmesdale dies?
The both leave Boston.
The remain in Boston
Chillingworth take them away.
Hester kills herself.
When does Hester and her lover come together?
In death, they are joined.
They leave Boston together.
They are married.
They never are joined together.
What happens to Rodger?
He goes back to the Indians.
He dies.
He lives with Hester.
No one knows.
