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This is Jeopardy!
The Scarlet Letter Version!!!
SymbolismCharacter &
SettingMorals &
Puritan IdealsPsychological
Ideas
100 100 100 100
200 200 200 200
300 300 300 300
400 400 400 400
500 500 500 500
Final Jeopardy
The Category is…
Hawthorne’s Use of Romanticism
Make Your Wagers
As noticed by Pearl, this aspect of nature does strange things when it is around Hester.
What is light (sunlight)?Fifteen Seconds on the ClockTime Is Up!
Symbolism: 100
In the eyes of the town, the A is a symbol of this
What is adultery?
Time is Up!
Symbolism: 200
The forest is a symbol of this
What evil?
Time is Up!
Symbolism: 300
This place represents heavenly judgment
What is the scaffold?
Time is Up!
Symbolism: 400
Pearls name represents this
What the sand in Hester’s soul turned beautiful?
Time is Up!
Symbolism: 500
The actions of Hester & Dimmesdale at the end of the novel represent this
What is repentance?
Time is Up!
Characters & Setting: 100
This character suffers for unrelenting inner torment
Who is Dimmesdale?
Time is Up!
Characters & Setting: 200
This setting represents the unknown as well as an evil pact
What is the forest?
Time is Up!
Characters & Setting: 300
This character is the essence of freedom
Who is Pearl?
Time is Up!
Characters & Setting: 400
This character’s life is corrupted beyond return
Who is Chillingworth?
Time is Up!
Characters & Setting: 500
This setting is the scene of greatest shame, as well as that of greatest repentance
What is the scaffolding?
Time is Up!
Morals & Puritan Ideals: 100
The breaking of this law is why Hester is shunned.
What is adultery?
Time is Up!
Morals & Puritan Ideals: 200
This is what corruptedChillingworth.
What is revenge?
Time is Up!
Morals & Puritan Ideals: 300
Dimmesdale was worried about this when he would not tell about his relationship with
Hester.
What is his reputation/job?
Time is Up!
Morals & Puritan Ideals: 400
This type of law Shunned Hester.
What is natural law?
Time is Up!
Morals & Puritan Ideals: 500
This moral caused Dimmesdale to be depressed when he would not tell anyone about his
relationship with Hester.
What is guilt?
Time is Up!
Psychological Ideas: 100
Describe Hester's connection to the scarlet letter and why she refuses to stop wearing it.
Hester chooses to continue to wear the letter because she is determined to transform its meaning through her actions and her own self-perception. Society tries to reclaim the letter’s
symbolism by deciding that the “A” stands for “Able,” but Hester resists this interpretation. The letter symbolizes her
own past deed and her own past decisions, and she is the one who will determine the meaning of those events.
Time is Up!
Psychological Ideas: 200
Describe the difference between the puritan use of symbols and Hawthorne's use of symbol.
Hawthorne's symbols tend to be romantically oriented focusing on individual events that change the change the characters, as opposed to the puritans. For them the symbols always further
personal beliefs and the religion
Time is Up!
Psychological Ideas: 300
Why is Chillingworth's revenge against Dimmesdale so drawn out?
Chillingworth wants to inflict as much physical and mental and anguish to Dimmesdale as possible for turning Hester into the
victim she is today.
Time is Up!
Psychological Ideas: 400
Why does the townspeople's interpretation of the letter change, and what is the new one?
It changes to reflect how has Hester has changed her actions from adulterous to charitable. The interpretation is from
Adulterer to Able
Time is Up!
Psychological Ideas: 500
In a way, Pearl is a part of Hester that has been taken away from her. Describe two of Hester’s old personality features
that were shown through Pearl.
Pearl represents innocence, freedom, and radicalism. Hester used to be innocent before she had Pearl, Hester used to be care-free before she had Pearl, and Hester used to be a radical risk-taker
before she had Pearl.
Time is Up!
