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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. While she is playing, Pearl makes a little boat out of what?
2. What, according to many of the townspeople who have come to appreciate Hester, should the A stand for?
3. In Chapter 14, the narrator symbolized the truth by what?
4. Hester says that Pearl is "strange" and what at first?
5. Where have Hester and Dimmesdale decided would be the best place to escape to?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Hester calls for Pearl to come to her in Chapter 19, Pearl will not move from her spot in the woods. What prevents her from going to her mother?
2. What, according to the narrator, enlivened the public holiday with "some diversity of hue?"
3. When Dimmesdale refuses to travel and quit his post as minister, how does Hester change his mind?
4. What does Pearl do with the seaweed she finds, and what does it show about her as a character?
5. How does Hawthorne describe Dimmesdale, either physically or emotionally, at the beginning of Chapter 13?
6. According to the narrator, what appeared to be Dimmesdale's subject, in his sermon in Chapter 23?
7. Why do Hester and Pearl gather with other townspeople at the beginning of Chapter 21?
8. Where does Dimmesdale go at the beginning of Chapter 12, and why?
9. Why, in Chapter 18, does Hester remove the scarlet letter and fling it into a brook?
10. Why does Hester say that Dimmesdale should travel somewhere, "whether in some remote village or in vast London, [...] in Germany, in France," etc?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Offer a compare and contrast essay about the two major male characters in this book, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth. Be sure to include analytical description of their looks and physical aspects, their emotional states, their motivations, and their conduct.
Essay Topic 2
This novel relies on symbolism to tell its story of psychological torment. Pick several of the major symbols or symbolic systems at work in the novel, describe them in terms of Hawthorne's fictional technique and offer an interpretation of their symbolic meaning on multiple levels.
Essay Topic 3
One major set of symbols in this work has to do with an interplay of the supernatural and the natural, both of which express various emotions or meanings at particular times in the book. Incorporating at least three examples from each category (three examples of the natural and three of the supernatural), define these concepts in terms of Hawthorne's novel, and interpret your examples in a comparative manner to show how they function in helping Hawthorne's narrator tell this story.
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