First Semester JEOPARDY $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Symbols Characters Quotes Random Nathaniel Hawthorne

100A Question What did Dimesdale see in the sky during the meteor shower?

100A Answer The letter “A”

200A Question What other character symbolizes the scarlet letter?

200A Answer Pearl

300A Question What does the forest symbolize to the people?

300A Answer The forest is a place of chaos and the realm of the Black Man

400A Question What does Pearl make at the beach?

400A Answer A green letter “A”

500A Question How is Pearls name symbolic?

500A Answer A pearl is pure and precious while Pearl was born out of sin

100B Question Which characters stood on the scaffolding at the beginning of the novel?

100B Answer Hester and Pearl

200B Question Who is the Black Man?

200B Answer The devil

300B Question Who is the Governor's sister in the novel?

300B Answer Mistress Hibbons

400B Question Who did Hester see from the scaffold in the beginning of the novel?

400B Answer A deformed man and Roger Chillingworth

500B Question True or False…Characters in this book are based on real people

500B Answer True

100C Question “God gave me this child!’ she cried ‘He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my tortue, none the less!” To who and about who is Hester speaking?

100C Answer To the governor about Pearl

200C Question “..indeed, to heighten the airy charm that early began to develop itself in___... Who is the narrator speaking about in this quote?.

200C Answer Pearl

300C Question “ ‘Hadst thou sought the whole earth over,” said he, loking darkly at the clergyman, “there was no place secret, --no high place nor low place, where thou couldst have escaped me,--save on this very scaffold!” (232). Who is talking and who are they talking to in this quote?

300C Answer Chillingworth to Dimmesdale

400C Question “the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom.” Who is being talked about in this quote?

400C Answer Hester Prynne

500C Question “Hester Prynne,” said the clergyman, “I have striven with my young brother here whose preaching of the word you have been priviledged to sit…” Who is speaking this quote?

500C Answer Mr. Wilson

100D Question What are the major themes in the novel?

100D Answer Isolation, gender roles, imposibility of human perfection, and sin

200D Question True or False…does Individuality vs. Society play a major role on the novel?

200D Answer True

300D Question What letter is the Scarlet Letter?

300D Answer A

400D Question Who does Hester grow to hate?

400D Answer Roger Chillingworth

500D Question What does Pearl do when they leave the governors house?

500D Answer She cries for a red rose

100E Question What century did Hawthorne write most of his works?

100E Answer 19 th Century

200E Question Where is the Scarlet Letter set?

200E Answer In a Puritan community

300E Question True or False…Is this novel an example of dark romanticism?

300E Answer True

400E Question Name another book that Hawthorne wrote.

400E Answer Young Goodman Brown

500E Question When was The Scarlet Letter published?

500E Answer 1850