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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is Chillingworth's most serious sin?
He allows his mind to be overpowered by his desire for revenge.
He has not admitted his part in the sin.
He ruins Dimmesdale's health with drugs and herbs.
He seeks to separate Hester and Pearl.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is Dimmesdale's most serious sin?
He fails to pay child support.
He won't marry Hester.
He preaches to his congregation about sin when he is a sinner.
He commits adultery.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Dimmesdale speaks to Hester during the first scaffold scene to convince her to:
Leave town
Give up her baby
Identify Pearl's father
Cast off the letter and defy the townspeople
- 4. Multiple Choice
Chillingworth's real reason for not revealing his true identify was that he:
Did not want to be associated with Hester.
Would not have to adopt Pearl.
Would not be stoned by the town.
Would be better able to discover Hester's partner in sin.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Why did Hester go to Governor Bellingham's residence?
A. To deliver a pair of gloves
B. To appeal to him not to take Pearl away
C. To ask that Pearl admitted to the town school
Both A and B
- 6. Multiple Choice
Who interceded on Hester's behalf regarding custody of Pearl?
Chillingworth
Dimmesdale
John Wilson
Pearl
- 7. Multiple Choice
Who is Mistress Hibbins?
Governor Bellingham's sister and the town witch
Hester's employer
Wilson's housekeeper
A ghost
- 8. Multiple Choice
In regards to secret sin, Dimmesdale argues that:
Puritans don't feel it is sinful.
only God can judge sin.
men are cowards.
their confession would end any chance of their continuing God's work.
- 9. Multiple Choice
To punish himself, Dimmesdale
fasts.
whips himself.
keeps vigils.
all of these.
- 10. Multiple Choice
The person who witnessed Dimmesdale's anguish with Hester and Pearl on the scaffold was:
Governor Bellingham.
Governor Winthrop.
Roger Chillingworth.
Reverend Wilson.
- 11. Multiple Choice
When Chillingworth suggests that Hester remove the letter, she says:
it won't come off.
she would be put in prison.
she will die without it.
when it is time, it will fall off.
- 12. Multiple Choice
The villagers thought that Pearl's character and actions were influenced by:
reading fairy tales.
fear of savage Indians.
improper food and care.
the evil one.
- 13. Multiple Choice
Dimmesdale's confession followed:
Roger Chillingworth's public denunciation of Dimmesdale
his trip to England.
Hester's revelations of Pearl's father.
the Election Day sermon.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Dimmesdale died:
on the scaffold, so he could experience redemption in a place where punishment occurs.
on the ship, so he could swim across to safety.
in the forest, so he could celebrate the love that was born in nature.
at the jail, so the Puritans could see his release from spiritual jail.
- 15. Multiple Choice
Pearl was an heiress to ___________ fortune.
Hester's
Dimmesdale's
Chillingworth's
Wilson's
- 16. Multiple Choice
The community that Hawthorne describes was composed of:
Quakers.
Liberal Puritans.
Strict Puritans.
Presbyterians.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Scarlet Letter dealt with all of the following except:
love.
sin.
revolution.
human weakness.
- 18. Multiple Choice
The setting of the novel
Salem, 1777
Boston, 1800
Boston 1648
Salem, 1200
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is Chillingworth's constantly pursuing? (ENTIRE LIFE)
revenge
love
wealth
knowledge
- 20. Multiple Choice
What imagery is not used in The Scarlet Letter
a knife
fire
snow
a brand
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT one of the acts of "perversity," or irrationality, that Dimmesdale is compelled to do?
deny the existence of heaven to an old widow
take the innocence of a young woman
teach children naughty words
all of the above
- 22. Multiple Choice
According to Dimmesdale, and the author what is Chillingworth's greatest sin?
he let his wife go to Boston alone
convinced Hester to marry him
he "violated the sanctity of the human heart"
devoted his life to the acquisition of knowledge
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT a motif used by Hawthorne?
vegetation/plants
scaffold
the gavel
the sunshine
- 24. Multiple Choice
"Praised be his name! His will be done! Farewell!
(who is talking?)
Pearl
Hester Prynne
Dimmesdale
Chillingworth
- 25. Multiple Choice
"What we did had a consecration of it's own. We felt it so!"
who said it?
Dimmesdale
Pearl
Chilingworth
Hester
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