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Question: This person stood on the scaffold at midnight but kept his sin private.

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Answer: Who is Reverend Dimmesdale?

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Question: This person bore a symbol of public shame in the village of Boston.

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Answer: Who is Hester Prynne?

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Question: This person was a symbol of both sin’s product and Good versus Evil.

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Answer: Who is Pearl Prynne?

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Question: This person is symbolic of the Church in Puritan society—the embodiment of religious laws.

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Answer: Who is Reverend John Wilson?

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Question: This person is symbolic of the State in Puritan society—the embodiment of governmental laws.

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Answer: Who is Governor Bellingham?

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Question: Roger Chillingworth’s character best represents this one of the 5 gothic novel elements.

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Answer: What is an “evil villian”?

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Question: Hester and Dimmesdale’s sin of adultery, which should have led to death for both of them according to Puritan law, best represents this one of the 5 Gothic characteristics.

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Answer: What is a “committed crime”?

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Question: The meteor in the shape of an ‘A’ in the sky during the night of the midnight scaffold scene best represents this one of the 5 Gothic characteristics.

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Answer: What is “supernatural and/or magical elements”?

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Question:The Puritan community’s somber atmosphere, along with the many shadowy and dark places—like the midnight scaffold scene and Dimmesdale’s closet—best represent this one of the 5 Gothic characteristics.

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Answer: What is a “gloomy atmosphere”?

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Question: Chillingworth’s eerie change from an agent of God to an agent of the devil and his “randomly” popping up and seeing/knowing things he shouldn’t best represents this one of the 5 Gothic characteristics.

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Answer: What is “mysteriousness”?

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Question: The single rosebush outside the prison doors, as well as Hester Prynne’s character, best represent this one of the 5 ‘Is’ of Romanticism.

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Answer: What is “Individualism”?

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Question: Pearl’s always knowing things without ever having really being told best represents this one of the 5 ‘Is’ of Romanticism.

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Answer: What is “Intuition”?

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Question: Hawthorne’s mixing of realistic events with ones that could never happen, such as the ‘A’ in the sky and Chillingworth’s appearance literally changing to resemble that of the devil’s (red eyes, etc.), best represents this one of the 5 ‘Is’ of Romanticism.

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Answer: What is “Imagination”?

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Question: Reverend Dimmesdale’s feeling guided by his experience in the forest and a supernatural feeling to rewrite his Election Sermon best represents this one of the 5 ‘Is’ of Romanticism.

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Answer: What is “Inspiration”?

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Question: The narrator’s telling of Pearl’s going on to live a happy and “perfect” life after a life of such social and paternal rejection best shows Hawthorne’s belief in this one of the 5 ‘Is’ of Romanticism.

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Answer: What is “Idealism”?

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Question: Throughout the novel, Hester and Pearl mount the scaffold this many times.

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Answer: What is 3?

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Question: Chillingworth begs Hester to do this more than once in the novel.

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Answer: What is swear never to tell his true identity?

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Question: Pearl says that Hester wears the scarlet letter for this reason.

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Answer: What is the same reason that Dimmesdale keeps his hand over his heart?

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Question: At his mansion, Governor Bellingham questioned Pearl about this.

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Answer: What is who her heavenly father is?

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Question: This person suspects Dimmesdale’s guilt toward the end of the novel during the Election Day celebration.

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Answer: Who is Mistress Hibbins?

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Question: True or False? The townspeople, throughout the novel, love, respect, and think Dimmedale is perfect.

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Answer: What is True?

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Question: Hester feels this emotion when she removes the scarlet letter in the forest.

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Answer: What is freedom, relief, or a brief moment of happiness?

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Question: True or False? Dimmesdale wants Hester to publicly confess the name of Pearl’s father to the townspeople.

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Answer: What is True?

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Question: The townspeople originally feel this way about the arrival of Chillingworth as a physician in the town of Boston.

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Answer: What is happiness and/or that he is sent from God?

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Question: For this reason, Pearl denies Dimmesdale’s kiss in the forest but accepts it on the scaffold in the daytime during the Election Day celebration.

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Answer: What is because he is now publicly confessing his sin and publicly accepting her as his daughter, whereas in the forest he did neither?

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