WorksheetsScarlet Letter
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 37mins
Who is the author of The Scarlet Letter?
Nathan Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hathaway
Nathan Hathaway
Who has to wear a scarlet A on the bodice of their gown?
Pearl
Dimmesdale
Hester
Chilingworth
How does Hester recognize Chillingworth in Chapter 2?
He has a "unique" face
He came and spoke to Hester
She doesn't recognize him
He has deformed shoulders
Who says, “Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman’s heart! She will not speak!”?
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Gov. Bellingham
Chillingworth
Who is Pearl?
Hester's daughter-in-law
A random little girl
Dimmesdale's daughter
Hester's sister
Who does Chillingworth seek revenge on?
Pearl's father
Hester
Pearl
Himself
Where does Hester move to once she is released from jail?
Chillingworth's house
Her parents' house
The outskirts of town
Back to jail
What does Hester do to make money?
Embroidery
Sells sowing lessons
Makes bridal veils
Adultery "services"
"Pearl of Great Price" refers to...
A parabola of Jesus
Hester's daughter
A parable of Jesus
Why does Hester go to the Governor's hall?
To visit Dimmesdale
To give him gloves she made
To see if Pearl is really getting taken away from her
He was throwing a party
Who says, "It was meant for a blessing; for the one blessing of her life!"?
Bellingham
Chillingworth
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
When John Wilson asks Pearl who made her, what is her response?
She never answered him
That she didn't know
She was plucked from a rosebush
she was born from a rosebush
To whom does the term "leech" refer?
Chillingworth
Dimmesdale
Hester
Pearl
Who does Chillingworth start living with?
Hester
Bellingham
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
"The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment...
After a brief pause, the physician turned away.
But, with what a wild look of wonder, joy, and horror!"
What does Chillingworth find here?
Dimmesdale drunk
A scarlet "A" on Dimmesdale's chest
Dimmesdale's illness
He doesn't find anything
Where does Dimmesdale go at night in chapter 12?
Home
Jailhouse
Scaffold
To Hester's
What did Dimmesdale leave on the scaffold one night?
A glove
A hat
A shoe
A belt
What does the scarlet letter begin to represent for Hester as time goes on?
Her sin
Pearl
Her love
Her strength
What does the rosebush symbolize?
Hell
God's love
Adultery
The devil
What does the prison symbolize?
Hell
God's love
Adultery
The devil
What does the scarlet A symbolize?
Hell
God's love
Adultery
The devil
What does the color Black symbolize/often refer to?
Hell
God's love
Adultery
The devil
What does Pearl symbolize
Hester and Dimmesdale's sin
A Parable of Jesus
The Pearl of Great Price
Chillingworth's sin
XII is what number in Roman Numerals?
(a)
which word means deserving or causing public disgrace or shame?
ignominious
Betwixt
Insrutable
Caprice
which word means between?
ignominious
Betwixt
Inscrutable
Caprice
Who says, “Then, and there, before the judgement-seat, thy mother, and thou, and I, must stand together! But the daylight of this world shall not see our meeting!”?
(a)
To whom does Hester say, "Speak for me! Thou knowest — for thou hast sympathies which these men lack — thou knowest what is in my heart..."?
(a)
To whom is this quote referring, “God gave me the child, He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me, she is my happiness”?
Hester
Dimmesdale
Pearl
Chillingworth
Who says, “I have thought of death have wished for it, - would have even prayed for it”?
Hester
Dimmesdale
Chillingworth
Pearl
How does Dimmesdale punish himself for his sin?
Whips himself
Stands on the scaffold
Fasts/starves himself
"...a fearful doubt strove to possess her soul, whether it were not better to send Pearl at once to heaven..."
What is Hester's thought here?
If it is better to kill Pearl or not
If it is better for Hester to live or not
If Pearl and Hester should run away
If Pearl, Hester, and Dimmesdale should all run away
Where does The Scarlet Letter take place?
Salem, MA
Boston, MA
New England
England
What group of people in the town took the longest to accept Hester’s good qualities?
The old clergymen
The women
The Men
The Puritans
Who says, "I will not speak!"?
Hester
Pearl
Dimmesdale
Chillingworth
Who is the governor?
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Bellingham
Who is the YOUNG pastor?
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Bellingham
Who is the OLD pastor?
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Bellingham
Who is Hester's husband?
Arthur
Roger
John
Robert
Roughly how many years have passed since the beginning of the novel?
5
6
7
8
"Better he had died at once!" Who is Hester talking about here?
(a)
Hester says, "When we last spake together". What does "spake" mean?
(a)
What does Dimmesdale need to do to get Pearl's approval?
Confess his sin
Give the Election Day Sermon
Meet The Black Man
Move into the forest
How many different scaffold scene are there in the novel?
1
2
3
4
Who dies in the novel?
Hester
Dimmesdale
Gov. Bellingham
Chillingworth
Where does Pearl go once she grows up?
Nowhere, she stays in Boston
England
A different colony
No one knows
What does Dimmesdale reveal during the final scaffold scene?
His scarlet letter
That he has beat Hester
That Pearl is his daughter-in-law
That he has a son
Who is Mistress Hibbins?
The town witch
Dimmesdale's daughter
A prisoner
A Native American
Who wears a scarlet letter made from seaweed
Pearl
Dimmesdale
Hester
Chillingworth
The sunshine avoids Hester because....
She refused to admit her sin
She is in love with Chillingworth
She sinned
She is still hiding something
Who says, "My dear little Pearl, wilt thou kiss me know?"?
(a)
Pearl asks, "Is there such a Black Man?" to who?
Mistress Hibbins
Dimmesdale
Hester
Chillingworth
Dimmesdale says to the townspeople, "God's eye beheld it...The Devil knew it well, and fretted it continually..." What is he talking about?
His sin of adultery
His relationship with Chillingworth
His Sermon
His plan to kill Chillingworth
Who says, "...in the name of Him...come hither now, and twine thy strength about me!"?
(a)
Dimmesdale says to Hester, "It was meant for a blessing; for the one blessing of her life!" to whom or what is he referring?
Pearl
The scarlet letter
His sin
His sermon
Who plans to secretly run away from the colony?
Hester
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Mistress Hibbins
Dimmesdale tells Hester that they are not the worst sinners in the colony, who does he say is?
Pearl
John Wilson
Mistress Hibbins
Chillingworth
What is the "New England Holiday"?
Election Day
Electrician Day
Voter Appreciation Day
Christmas
What does Dimmesdale do to his original sermon for Election Day?
Throws in the fire
Revises it
Tears it up
Nothing
Who plans to board the boat for England?
Chillingworth
Mistress Hibbins
John Wilson
Bellingham
What is the point of view of the The Scarlet Letter
First Person
Third Person
Second Person
Third person omniscient
What did the Puritans use the bible as?
Law
Religion
A book
Common reading
Hester's letter comes to mean
Able
Achieve
Accomplished
Aggressive
Where is Pearl hesitant to approach Dimmesdale
The hills
The woods
The Mountains
The Hall
Why does Pearl not recognize Hester
She wore a different dress
She was happy
She did her makeup
She took off the letter
When Hester returns to the colony at the end of the novel, what does she do that might be seen as strange?
Wears the scarlet letter again
Lives in Dimmesdale's old house
Commits adultery again
Runs for governor
Who says, "In the dark night-time, he calls us to him, and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood with him on the scaffold."?
(a)
To whom does Dimmesdale say, "I think to need more of your drugs, my kind physician, good though they be, and administered by a friendly hand."?
(a)
Who says, "Children will not abide any, the slightest, change in the accustomed aspect of things that are daily before their eyes."?
(a)
Hester has to walk the narrow path. What does this path represent?
The path she has to walk in life
The path Pearl will walk in life
The path Dimmesdale will walk in life
The path Chillingworth will walk in life
