scarlet letter

ann hutchison

founder of a religious sect

master bracket

the jailer

issac johnson

first person buried in boston cemetery

jonathan pue

surveyor for the port of salem

increase mather

a young and distinguished divine

mr. wilson

the eldest clergyman in boston

governor bellingham

hester made a pair of gloves for him

reverend mr. blackstone

first settler on the peninsula

governor winthrop

he died the night the A shone in the sky

mistress hibbins

witch-lady

the penalty for adultery in Puritan Boston is death (T or F)

True

Pearl often kisses the scarlet letter to upset her mother (T or F)

True

Chillingworth begs Hester to keep his secret (T or F)

True

Pearl plays well with the other children in the village (T or F)

False

Chillingworth tries to poison Dimmesdale (T or F)

False

Hester admits to the townspeople that Dimmesdale is her lover (T or F)

False

Hester wears a scarlet A to show that she lives alone (T or F)

False

Chillingworth is believed by some to be an agent of the devil (T or F)

True

Dimmesdale is loved and respected by all the townspeople (T or F)

True

Hester refuses to leave Boston with Arthur Dimmesdale (T or F)

False

Chillingworth wants Dimmesdale to confess that he is Pearl’s father (T or F)

False

Hester is overcome with guilt whenever she removes the scarlet letter (T or F)

False

Mistress Hibbins suspects Dimmesdale’s guilt (T or F)

True

Hester removes the scarlet letter whenever she is alone (T or F)

False

Only Pearl knows why Dimmesdale holds his hand over his heart (T or F)

False

The Reverend Wilson questions Pearl about

her religious training

Hester is not put to death for her crime because

she was tempted out of loneliness

Dimmesdale argues that Hester’s silence does all but one of the following

only adds to the wickedness of her sin

Pearl often amuses herself by

fighting imaginary battles

Chillingworth believes he can identify Pearl’s father by studying

Pearl’s nature

Chillingworth wants Hester to live so that she

will suffer in shame

Chillingworth has a strange and powerful hold on

Dimmesdale

Hester believes that wearing the scarlet letter has given her

knowledge of the hidden sin in others

The first object which Pearl notices as a baby is

the scarlet letter

Hester visits Governor Bellingham…

to ask that Pearl not be taken away from her

At first Chillingworth’s arrival is seen by the townspeople as

a miraculous event

Chillingworth wonders if Pearl is

altogether evil

Dimmesdale assumes his dislike of Chillingworth is

unfounded

Dimmesdale is well liked by the townspeople because

he communicates with the unfortunate

Dimmesdale stands on the scaffold at night rather than during the day to

avoid being seen

Dimmesdale screams one night while on the scaffold and

Mistress Hibbins comes to her window

Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl are seen together on the scaffold one night by

Chillingworth

After seeing Dimmesdale standing on the scaffold, Hester decides to help him by

breaking her promise to Chillingworth

Hester tells her husband she will be rid of the scarlet letter when

the letter “falls away”

Pearl says Hester wears the scarlet letter

for the same reason Dimmesdale covers his heart

Hester and Dimmesdale make plans to

leave the village

Hester believes she can undo the past by

discarding the scarlet letter

Pearl washes Dimmesdale’s kiss from her forehead because she

wants to embarrass him

Dimmesdale doesn’t want to leave Boston until he

has delivered the Election Day sermon

Chillingworth climbs onto the scaffold to

stop Dimmesdale from confessing

to petrify

to make hard

transgressor

sinner

purport

meaning

visage

face

iniquity

wickedness

to rankle

to irritate

fervor

zeal

to exhort

to incite

efficacy

effectiveness

retribution

punishment

progenitors

forefathers

emolument

income

to concoct

to devise

insidious

treacherous

inopportune

inconvenient

to procure

to obtain

attire

clothing

to revile

to scold

enmity

dislike

preternatural

strange

to caper

to skip

extant

existing

pestilence

plague

vista

view

depravity

corruption

mountebank

“con” man

profane

unholy

scrupulous

conscientious

sagacity

wisdom

to vilify

to slander

decorous

proper

to bestow

to give

repose

rest

machination

plot

to abase

to humble

pristine

unspoiled

to accost

to greet

propinquity

nearness

dexterity

skill

petulant

peevish

cadence

rhythm

to mollify

to soften

to vex

to annoy

to requite

to repay

probity

honesty

mien

manner

fortitude

courage

auditor

listener

venerable

respected

necromancer

sorcerer