Scarlet Letter Chapter 11-15 Quiz

Arthur goes to the scaffold in the middle of the night to

seek relief from his guilt

The public is despotic in its temper; it is capable of denying common justice, when too strenuously demanded as a right; but quite as frequently it awards more than justice, when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.

Suggest that the public can be worn over by a humble approach

Which character seeks to make him or herself “the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear”?

Chilingworth

What, in Chapter 13 “glimmers” with an “unearthly ray”?

The scarlet letter

What does Chillingworth say in Chapter 14 the town council has been debating?

Whether to take away the scarlet letter

Hester discovered that the Scarlet Letter gives her the power to

sense the sins in the hearts of others

At the end of his conversation with Hester, Roger is described as

Each event that occurs while the minister is on the scaffold at night

• Rev Wilson walks by

• Dimmesdale loses his glove

• Chilingworth witnesses the gathering

• Gov. Winthrop has died

• He stands with Hester and Pearl

Who says “I have already told you what I am! A fiend! Who made me so?”

Chilingworth

Who says “Well, well, indeed! We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straitly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep. Come, good Sir, and my dear friend, I pray you, let me lead you home!”

Chilingworth

Who says “No longer ago than yester eve, a magistrate, a wise and godly man, was discoursing of your affairs, Mistress Hester, and whispered me that there had been question concerning you in the council. It was debated whether or not, with safety to the common weal, yonder scarlet letter might be taken off your bosom.”

Chilingworth

Who says “Nor do I - whom the scarlet letter has disciplined to truth, though it be the truth of red-hot iron, entering into the soul…”

Hester

Who says “By thy first step awry, though didst plant the germ of evil; but, since that moment, it has all been a dark necessity….Let the black flower blossom as it may!”

Chilingworth says this to Hester

Who says “for the hatred that has transformed a wise and just man to a friend! Wilt thou yet purge it out of thee, and be once more human? If nowt for his sake, then doubly for thine own! Forgive, and leave his further retribution to the Power that claims it!”

Dimmesdale says this to Chilingworth

As Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold, what strange event does he witness in the sky? (literally and figuratively)

A meteor streaks across the night sky forming the shape of a large, red "A." The meteor serves as a symbolic reflection of the hidden sin that Dimmesdale is concealing. It is as if the heavens themselves are bearing witness to his guilt.