On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would ...



Chapters 1-3 Review

1. Explain: On the other hand, a penalty which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself.

2. Write down three adjectives Hawthorne uses to describe the women of the town.

3. Write down three adjectives Hawthorne uses to describe Hester Prynne.

4. Why are the women in the town angry with Hester?

5. The narrator compares Hester to a Biblical figure. Who?

6. What does Hester think about while she stands on the scaffold?

7. Why is the stranger upset?

8. Why did the magistrates decide to spare Hester’s life?

9. What strategy does the author use to alert the reader of the exposition?

10. Write down three adjectives to describe the stranger.

11. Identify: John Wilson, Dimmesdale

12. Explain: And my child must seek a heavenly father; she shall never know an earthly one!"

13. What is the goal of the clergymen? Why?

14. What is the minister’s reason for Hester to turn in the name of the father?

15. Explain: “Dreadful as it was, she was conscious of a shelter in the presence of these thousand witnesses.”

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