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Juniors ~ Scarlet Letter

CHAPTERS ONE-FOUR

*Questions due Monday (Vocab due Tuesday)*

Study Questions -- respond to the following using complete sentences:
  1. What is the setting? Where exactly does the book begin?
  2. Why does Hawthorne mention Anne Hutchinson?
  3. What two possible symbols does the rose have for the reader?
  4. Describe the Puritan women (use quote to support your answer).
  5. Describe the appearance of Hester Prynne.
  6. What is Hester’s sin? Punishment?
  7. What punishment is usual for her "crime"?
  8. What is astonishing about the “A” on her bodice? Importance?
  9. What things does Hester think about while she is on the scaffold?
  10. Describe her baby. Who are Hester and her baby compared to?
  11. Describe the man who is standing on the outskirts of the crowd.
  12. What does the stranger learn from the townsman next to him?
  13. Who is the father of Hester’s baby?
  14. What are Hester’s feelings toward the stranger?
  15. Who is Dimmesdale, and what is his relationship to Hester?
  16. What does he ask her to reveal?
  17. Why does the jailer call a doctor?
  18. What is the doctor’s name, and how did he learn his skill?
  19. Describe the relationship between the "doctor" and Hester.
  20. What secret does her ask Hester to keep?
Vocabulary -- for each word, include the sentence from book (cited), the definition (from Websters), and your own sentence:

1. throng
2. edifice
3. sepulchers
4. ponderous
5. inauspicious
6. physiognomies
7. indubitably
8. heterodox
9. interfused
10. impropriety
11. rotundity
12. hussy
13. magistrate
14. sumptuary
15. ignominy
16. preternaturally
17. sojourn
18. remonstrance
19. iniquity
20. paramour

Please write neatly, or (better yet) type this assignment. Use an MLA heading.

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