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The Scarlet Letter Review Ch 1-8

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 3mins

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1.

Since Pearl is an outcast of the community,

a)

Hester dresses her in dark, drab garments.

b)

she becomes a quiet, obedient, and loving child.

c)

she plays by herself with "the unlikeliest materials," such as sticks, rags, and flowers.

2.

Who is Roger Chillingworth?

a)

a physician called in to treat Hester, a man she has never seen before

b)

Hester's long-lost husband, a man she truly loved

c)

Hester's long-lost husband, a man she never truly loved

3.

Who is being described here: "[A man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light which has served them to pore over many ponderous books"?

a)

the father of Hester's child

b)

the judge

c)

Hester's husband

4.

Pearl is asked by Mr. Wilson, "Canst thou tell me child, who made thee?" What does Pearl respond?

a)

"My Heavenly Father, kind sir."

b)

She simply stares at him in a demonic way.

c)

She says that her mother plucked her from the rose bush.

5.

When Chillingworth goes to Hester after she has been on the scaffold,

a)

he tries to poison her, but not her child.

b)

she refuses to let him help her or the child.

c)

she is deeply agitated from her ordeal and from seeing him.

6.

When Hester goes to Governor Bellingham's home,

a)

she wants to convince him not to take Pearl away from her.

b)

Reverend Dimmesdale argues to let Pearl remain with Hester.

c)

Governor Bellingham's servant mistakes Hester for a great lady.

d)

all of the above

7.

Identify the speaker of this quote: "Not on thy soul; no, not on thine."

a)

Hester Prynne

b)

Arthur Dimmesdale

c)

Roger Chillingworth

d)

Mr. Wilson

8.

Identify the speaker: "Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee."

a)

Hester Prynne

b)

Arthur Dimmesdales

c)

Roger Chillingworth

d)

Mistress Hibbons

9.

Identify the speaker: "Wilt thou go with us tonight? There be merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promise the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one."

a)

Hester Prynne

b)

Arthur Dimmesdale

c)

Roger Chillingworth

d)

Mistress Hibbons

10.

Identify the speaker: "I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer! Be not silent from any mistaken pity and tenderness from him; believe me, Hester, though he were to step down from a high place, and stand there beside thee on thy pedestal of shame, yet better were it so, than to hide a guilty heart through life."

a)

Hester Prynne

b)

Arthur Dimmesdale

c)

Roger Chillingworth

d)

Mistress Hibbons