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THE SCARLET LETTER QUIZ REVIEW FOR CHAPTERS 1-4. USING ADJECTIVES, DESCRIBE THE MOOD. Somber, dreary, gray. CHARACTERS. DIGNIFIED, TENACIOUS, MORALLY HIGHER THAN PURITANS, BEAUTIFUL. Hester Prynne. DEFORMED, SCHOLARLY, VENGEFUL. Roger Chillingworth. ADMIRED, MORALLY WEAK, COWARDLY.
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USING ADJECTIVES, DESCRIBE THE MOOD. Somber, dreary, gray
DIGNIFIED, TENACIOUS, MORALLY HIGHER THAN PURITANS, BEAUTIFUL Hester Prynne
DEFORMED, SCHOLARLY, VENGEFUL Roger Chillingworth
ADMIRED, MORALLY WEAK, COWARDLY Arthur Dimmesdale
HARSH, EVIL, VINDICTIVE, UNFORGIVING HYPOCRITICAL, EMPHASIZERS OF ORIGINAL SIN The Puritan Community
PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF SIN The Scaffold
BEAUTY, PRIDE, SHAME, ADULTERY, GUILT The letter “A”
BEAUTY AMIDST UGLINESS AND DECAY; TENACITY AND RESILLIANCE OF HESTER The rosebush
PUNISHMENT AND ORIGINAL SIN The prison
HESTER FREELY ACKNOWLEDGES HER SIN • SHE ELABORATELY SEWS HER SYMBOL • OF SHAME AND GUILT • DIMMESDALE CONCEALS HIS SIN Private vs. Public Acknowledgement of Sin
THE PURITANS’ ADMIRATION OF DIMMESDALE, HIS BEING DESCRIBED AS “GODLY,” AND CHILLINGWORTH’S LEARNING ABOUT HIS LIFE FROM THE TOWNSMAN ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF . . . Irony
HAWTHORNE’S DESCRIPTION OF THE MARKETPLACE CROWD AND HIS CHOICE TO LESSEN HESTER’S PUNISHMENT Autobiographical
SEPARATED LOVERS—Hester and Dimmesdale • HIDDEN IDENTITY--Chillingworth • PURITAN VILLAGE—Puritan Boston • CRIME, RELIGION, AND DEFORMITY—Hester’s “crime,” influence of staunch Puritanism, and Chillingworth’s deformity Romance
VOCABULARY Study all vocabulary
BACKGROUND NOTES • TULIP—choose one to explain (from Notes handout) • CAPITALISM—from handout • LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF BIBLE--handout • PURITAN AS AN INSULT--handout • HARVARD--handout • MODERATION WITH ALCOHOL--handout • SEX WITHIN MARRIAGE--handout • ENTERED INTO A COVENANT WITH GOD WHICH, IF FOLLOWED, WOULD MAKE THEM AS A “CITY UPON A HILL”--handout