Purcella Midterm

foritude

courage in facing difficulties

bereft

deprived of; made unhappy through a loss

augment

to make larger, increase

guise

an external appearance, cover, mask

deploy

to position or arrange

adroit

skillful, expert in the use of the hands or mind

amicable

peaceable, friendly

belligerent

given to fighting, warlike

benevolent

kindly, charitable

cursory

hasty, not thorough

redress

to set right, remedy

sojourn

a temporary stay

urbane

refined in manner or style

Punitive

inflicting or aiming at punishment

Perpetuate

to make permanent or long lasting

Finite

having limits; lasting for a limited time

invulnerable

not able to be wounded or hurt

Panacea

remedy for all ills

omniscient

knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding

converge

to move toward one point

Plod

to walk heavily or slowly

infallible

free from error; absolutely dependable

indomitable

unconquerable, refusing to yield

discrepancy

a difference; a lack of agreement

diffident

shy, lacking self-confidence; modest, reserved

Venial

open to or marked by bribery or corruption

suppress

to stop by force, put down

supple

bending easily

stately

dignified, majestic

rampant

growing without check, running wild

Author of the Devil and Tom Walker

Washington Irving

Author of The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Author of the Scarlet letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of Self reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author of From walden

Henry David Thoreau

Author of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Author of "I Hear America Singing"

Walt Whitman

"And here is to be noted a special providence of God, and a great mercy to this poor people, that here they got seed to plant them corn the next year..."

From the Plymouth Plantation

"She always sings her Barbados songs, and we dance"

The Crucible

"Do you sport with me? You will sign your name or it no confession..."

The Crucible

"Every winter the liquid and trembling surface of the pond, which was so sensitive to every breath, and reflected every light and shadow, becomes solid to the depth..."

From Walden

"I have paid no poll-tax for six years. I was put into a jail once on this account, for night..."

Civil Disobedience

"I meet this American government, or its representative, the state government, directly, and face to face, once a year- no more..."

Civil Disobedience

"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"

Self-Reliance

"In this way he made money hand over hand, became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon change."

The Devil and Tom Walker

"Let your life be a counter-fiction to stop the machine"

Civil Disobedience

"Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs"

I hear america singing

"There be no love for Satan in this house..."

The Crucible

"Sweet moral blossom... some relief in the face of sorrow and gloom..."

The Scarlet Letter

If a plant cannot live according to its nature; it dies; and so a man"

Civil Disobedience

"Still we live meanly, like ants; through the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men..."

From Walden

"Tom's zeal became as notorious as his riches"

The Devil and Tom Walker

"We must not always talk in the market place of what happens to us in the forest"

The Scarlet Letter

"The sunshine does not love you..."

The scarlet letter

"or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing"

I hear america Singing

"I left the woods for good a reason as I went there"

From Walden

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist"

Self-Reliance

"Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world"

Self-Reliance

"To be great is to be misunderstood"

Self-Reliance

'They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and fit up their houses and dwelling against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty"

From of the Plymouth Plantation

"He gave his goodness now... God forbid I take it from him"

The Crucible

Act II: Abigail stuck a needle into her stomach in order to

D. accuse Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft

Act IV: Which line best expresses a major theme of this play?

A. I am not your judge, I cannot be."

Act III: Hale begins seriously to doubt the morality and motivations of the trials when he

B. signs Rebecca's death sentence

Act III: When Abigail says to Danforth, "Think you be so mighty that the power of Hell may not turn your wits? Beware of it; she is

D. using her power to threaten him.

The prison door best represents which of the following:

A. Puritanical severity of law and the authority of the

The rosebush outside the prison door is a symbol of all of the following except:

A. Hester and Pearl living among the Puritans

What happens to Pearl at the end of the story?

B. She is left a lot of money by Chillingworth, and leaves town, never to be heard from again.

By punishing Hester with the scarlet letter, the Puritan community is doing what, according

to Nathaniel Hawthorne?

C. proclaiming its own smug and judgmental self-righteousness

Two symbolic images of the good and evil battling over Dimmesdale's soul are:

B. Chillingworth and Pearl

How does Hester earn a living?

by her needlework

What does Pearl best represent throughout the novel?

A. The living embodiment of Hester's sin

When John Wilson asks Pearl who her maker is, Pearl replies

D. that she was plucked off of a rose bush

Mistress Hibbins, the sister of Governor Bellingham, is reputed to be:

A. a witch

To whom does Hawthorne apply the term The Leech?

D. Chillingworth

How does Chillingworth figure out who Pearl's father really is?

B. Chillingworth becomes Dimmesdale's doctor and guesses the secret

What is Hester's response when she learns that the Puritan council might allow her to remove her scarlet letter?

C. she indicates that only God can remove her letter

Hester tries to convince Dimmesdale to do what during their walks in the woods?

A. to run away and live elsewhere

What does Pearl do when she first sees her mother without the scarlet letter?

B. She convulses and screams

Who destroys Dimmesdale and Hester's plans to run away from Boston?

D. Chillingworth

What does Pearl do right before Dimmesdale dies?

B. She kisses Dimmesdale

Eventually, years after it was put on her chest to stand for adultery;, the "A" on Hester's

chest begins to stand for:

C. Able

Two symbolic images of the good and evil battling over Dimmesdale's soul are:

B. Chillingworth and Pearl

By punishing Hester with the scarlet letter, the Puritan community is doing what, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne?

C. proclaiming its own smug and judgmental self-righteousness

Chillingworth became the greatest sinner in violating the human heart because:

B. He single-mindedly was bent on personal revenge against Dimmesdale

Name another story that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote:

B. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment;

Nathaniel Hawthorne had an ancestor who:

A. Presided over the Salem Witch Trials of 1692

What happens to Pearl at the end of the story?

B. She is left a lot of money by Chillingworth, and leaves town, never to be Heard from again.

What is the setting of The Scarlet Letter?

D. Boston, Massachusetts in 1650

The following line is about Hester, towards the end of the story:

"Her face, so long familiar to the townspeople, showed the marble quietude which they were

accustomed to behold there. It was like a mask; or rather, like the frozen calmness of a dead

woman's features..."

What literary device does Hawthorne use in the underlined portion of the passage?

B. metaphor

What kind of story, or genre, is The Scarlet Letter classified as?

B. psychological romance

The Devil and Tom Walker; An important factor contributing to Tom's success as a

moneylender is

D. other people's desire to get rich quick

In The Devil and Tom Walker; The narrator indicates that Old Scratch doesn';t frighten Tom