Scarlet Letter Quiz 2

Name: ___________________________________________ Scarlet Letter, Quiz 2 chapters 7-13 Chapter 7

1. The leaders of the town thought it might be better if they took Pearl away from Hester. What were the two reasons they gave for this? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Governor Bellingham had a bond servant. Explain what a bondservant is and how a person became one. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 8 3. When Mr. Wilson asked Pearl, “Canst thou tell me, child, who made thee?” How does Pearle answer? How does the Governor react? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Rewrite this quote in your own words, who was Pearle comforting? Why do you think she chose to act this way toward him? Why was Hester surprised? “Pearl, that wild and flight little elf, stole softly towards him, and taking his hand in the grasp of both of her own, laid her cheek against it; a caress so tender, and withal so unobtrusive that her mother, who was looking on, asked herself, “Is that my Pearl?” ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 9 5. Who said this? Why did he/she say it? Who was he/she talking to? “I could be well content that my labors, and my sorrows, and my sins, and my pains, should shortly end with me, and what is earthly of them be buried in my grave, and the spiritual should go with me to my eternal state, rather than that you should put your skill to the proof in my health.” ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Some of the people in town were very happy that Chillingsworth was around to help Dimmesdale, other people did not like him at all. What were some of the reasons for dislike given by the people who did not like Chillingsworth? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 10 7. What does Chillingsworth think is Dimmesdale’s real problem? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 8. How does Dimmesdale react when Chillingsworth tells him what he thinks the problem is? _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. How did Chillingsworth react after he opened up Dimmesdale’s shirt? Why did he react that way? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 11 10. Give a synomym or an explanation of the underlined word in the following sentences: A: “He became, thenceforth, not a spectator only, but a chief actor in the poor minister’s interior world.” _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ B: “It was inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him!” _________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 12

11. How long had it been since Hester Prynne had been punished on the scaffold? ________________________ 12. Why were Mr. Wilson, Hester and Chillingsworth out in the night when Dimmesdale went to the scaffold? ________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.What does Pearl ask Dimmesdale to do while they are on the scaffold? How does he answer? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 13 13. Over the years, the people in town started to look at Hester differently; instead of the Scarlet Letter standing for ‘Adultery’, they say it now stands for ‘Able’ what made them change their minds? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 14. In the end Hester made a decision to do something- what did she decide to do? ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________