Exam: Scarlet Letter chapters 1-12

Read carefully, make notes and prepare to write about the following items:


• The rose at the threshold of the prison door.  Anne Hutchinson.  Sweet moral blossom?  

• Pearl's name.  It's significance.  (Biblical and natural)

• Pearl’s response when asked who made her.  Significance. (connections to first item)

• Chillingworth.   His relationship to Dimmesdale.  Differing opinions of him among the townsfolk.

• The conversation about the weeds and hidden sin in chapter 10.  The subtext.  Dramatic irony.  The burrs.

• The scaffold scene in chapter 12. Compare to the scaffold scene in chapter 2.