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The Scarlet Letter Study Guide: Chapters 4-5, Exercises of Literature

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The Scarlet Letter Study Guide
Chapters 4-5
“The Interview”
1. What was wrong with Hester when she returned to prison?
2. What “physician” does the jailor bring in to see Hester?
3. What does the jailor mean by, “there lacks little, that I should take in hand to
drive Satan out of her with stripes?”
4. How did Chillingworth gain his medical knowledge?
5. What does Hester accuse Chillingworth of putting in the medicine he gives her?
6. How did Hester feel about him when they were married?
7. What does Chillingworth say about his vengeance against her?
8. What does Chillingworth say about finding out the identity of Pearl’s father?
9. What secret does Chillingworth tell Hester to keep?
10. What does Hester mean when she references the “Black Man?”
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The Scarlet Letter Study Guide Chapters 4- 5 “The Interview”

  1. What was wrong with Hester when she returned to prison?
  2. What “physician” does the jailor bring in to see Hester?
  3. What does the jailor mean by, “there lacks little, that I should take in hand to drive Satan out of her with stripes?”
  4. How did Chillingworth gain his medical knowledge?
  5. What does Hester accuse Chillingworth of putting in the medicine he gives her?
  6. How did Hester feel about him when they were married?
  7. What does Chillingworth say about his vengeance against her?
  8. What does Chillingworth say about finding out the identity of Pearl’s father?
  9. What secret does Chillingworth tell Hester to keep?
  10. What does Hester mean when she references the “Black Man?”

“Hester at Her Needle”

  1. The narrator says “she could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.” What does this mean?
  2. To what does the narrator compare Hester’s reason for staying in Boston? 1 3. Where did Hester live?
  3. What art served to keep Hester and her child fed?
  4. What served as an advertisement for Hester’s skill?
  5. What kind of clothes did Hester and her child wear?
  6. What did Hester do with her extra money?
  7. How did the people she helped treat Hester?
  8. Why did Hester grow to have a dread of children?
  9. Explain the following quote, “Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s?”