Question and Answers on the Scarlet Letter
QUOTE TEST on THE SCARLET LETTER
Directions: Choose 5 of the quotes below and discuss (1) who said it (2) when it was said (what was the situation), and (3) what is the significance meaning importance to the ENTIRE WORK. Here discuss if the quote relates to character, theme, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing imagery, etc.
1. “Never!. . . And would that I might enfure his agony, as well as mine!”
2. “Thou wasn’t not bold!- thou wast not true!. . . Thou wouldst not promise to take my hand, and my mother’s hand, to-morrow noontide!”
3. “Let the black flower blossom as it may!”
4. “Truly, friend, and me thinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles, and sojourn in the wilderness. . . to find yourself in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished as here in our godly New England.”
5. “But he will be known! - he will be known!- he will be known!”
6. “The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town beadle”
7. “He was violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of the human heart.”
8. “What we did had a consecration of its own.
9. “There was no one place so secret, no high place nor lowly place, wehre thou couldst have escaped me, - save on this very scaffold.”
10. “Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.”
Here are some of the answers.
1. Hester is speaking. She is refusing to name the father of her child while on the scaffold. Her reply to the clergymen reveals her strength of character and loyalty to Dimmesdale. Although she feels shame, she is prepared to endure it alone. She is so loyal to her lover, she wishes she “could endure his agony for him.” This quotes shows a great deal about her character.
2. Pearl tells Dimmesdale this during his midnight visit to the scaffold. Pearl is
stating
Directions: Choose 5 of the quotes below and discuss (1) who said it (2) when it was said (what was the situation), and (3) what is the significance meaning importance to the ENTIRE WORK. Here discuss if the quote relates to character, theme, symbolism, irony, foreshadowing imagery, etc.
1. “Never!. . . And would that I might enfure his agony, as well as mine!”
2. “Thou wasn’t not bold!- thou wast not true!. . . Thou wouldst not promise to take my hand, and my mother’s hand, to-morrow noontide!”
3. “Let the black flower blossom as it may!”
4. “Truly, friend, and me thinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles, and sojourn in the wilderness. . . to find yourself in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished as here in our godly New England.”
5. “But he will be known! - he will be known!- he will be known!”
6. “The door of the jail being flung open from within, there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into the sunshine, the grim and grisly presence of the town beadle”
7. “He was violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of the human heart.”
8. “What we did had a consecration of its own.
9. “There was no one place so secret, no high place nor lowly place, wehre thou couldst have escaped me, - save on this very scaffold.”
10. “Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.”
Here are some of the answers.
1. Hester is speaking. She is refusing to name the father of her child while on the scaffold. Her reply to the clergymen reveals her strength of character and loyalty to Dimmesdale. Although she feels shame, she is prepared to endure it alone. She is so loyal to her lover, she wishes she “could endure his agony for him.” This quotes shows a great deal about her character.
2. Pearl tells Dimmesdale this during his midnight visit to the scaffold. Pearl is
stating