This Jeopardy! game covers symbolism, characters and settings, morals and Puritan ideals, and psychological ideas in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Players answered questions about symbols like the scarlet letter "A" and the forest, characters like Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, Puritan moral codes around adultery and reputation, and how characters used symbols and experienced psychological torment, revenge and growth.
4. As noticed by Pearl, this aspect of nature does
strange things when it is around Hester.
Fifteen Seconds(sunlight)?
WhatTime Is on the Clock
is light Up!
5. Symbolism: 100
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In the eyes of the town, the A is a symbol of this
What is adultery?
8. Symbolism: 400
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Pearls name represents this
What the sand in Hester’s soul turned
beautiful?
9. Symbolism: 500
Time is Up!
The actions of Hester & Dimmesdale at the end
of the novel represent this
What is repentance?
10. Characters & Setting: 100
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This character suffers for unrelenting inner
torment
Who is Dimmesdale?
11. Characters & Setting: 200
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This setting represents the unknown as well as
an evil pact
What is the forest?
12. Characters & Setting: 300
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This character is the essence of freedom
Who is Pearl?
13. Characters & Setting: 400
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This character’s life is corrupted beyond return
Who is Chillingworth?
14. Characters & Setting: 500
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This setting is the scene of greatest shame, as
well as that of greatest repentance
What is the scaffolding?
15. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 100
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The breaking of this law is why Hester is
shunned.
What is adultery?
16. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 200
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This is what corruptedChillingworth.
What is revenge?
17. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 300
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Dimmesdale was worried about this when he
would not tell about his relationship with
Hester.
What is his reputation/job?
18. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 400
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This type of law Shunned Hester.
What is natural law?
19. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 500
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This moral caused Dimmesdale to be depressed
when he would not tell anyone about his
relationship with Hester.
What is guilt?
20. Psychological Ideas: 100
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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.
21. Psychological Ideas: 200
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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
22. Psychological Ideas: 300
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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.
23. Psychological Ideas: 400
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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
24. Psychological Ideas: 500
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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.
