scarlet letter notes for chapters 6-9

Question 1

what is hester taking to the governor’s house

Answer 1

a pair of gloves she has fringed and embroidered

Question 2

what is hester’s intent on her trip to the governor’s house

Answer 2

see if the town leaders are going to take pearl away from her

Question 3

pearl looks life an _____ in the mirror

Answer 3

imp

Question 4

what is the governor’s name

Answer 4

governor richard bellingham

Question 5

who is with the governor

Answer 5

reverends john wilson and arthur dimmesdale and physician roger chillingworth

Question 6

how does hester argue that they shouldn’t take pearl away

Answer 6

by saying all that she has learned from wearing the scarlet letter
The letter teaches her all the time the lessons she needs to impart on her child

Question 7

reverend wilson asks what question to pearl

Answer 7

who made thee

Question 8

how does pearl answer

Answer 8

Pearl knows the answer, but, since she wants to be difficult, she says that her mother plucked her off one of the wild rose bushes that grew by the prison door.

Question 9

how does hester react to pearls answer

Answer 9

Hester grabs her child and tells the Governor that God gave Pearl to her—Pearl is her happiness and torture, all wrapped in one.

Question 10

what does hester threaten to do

Answer 10

kill herself

Question 11

what does dimmesdale say about the child and hester

Answer 11

pearl will be hester’s salvation

Question 12

how does dimmesdale respond to pearl when she walks over to him

Answer 12

kisses her on the forehead

Question 13

hester is invited by who to what kind of party

Answer 13

governor bellinham’s sister invites her to a party held in honor of the black man

Question 14

what will happen to governor bellinham’s sister a few years later

Answer 14

executed as a witch

Question 15

does hester accept the party invite

Answer 15

no

Question 16

chillingworth combines knowledge of what

Answer 16

American Indian herbal medicine and British medicine.

Question 17

what is a doctor called in this time

Answer 17

a leech

Question 18

what is wrong with dimmesdale

Answer 18

Dimmesdale’s isn’t looking too good, probably because he studies too hard and is a wee bit overly devoted to God.
He’s thin, tired, and depressed, and often observed to put his hand over his heart, as if he is in pain.

Question 19

what does roger suggest

Answer 19

living together so he could assist dimmesdale’s health

Question 20

what does the congregation think of roger’s suggestion

Answer 20

sounds like the hand of god

Question 21

what do the doubters think of roger’s suggestion

Answer 21

These doubters feel that Chillingworth has changed since he first came to town. At first, he had appeared like scholar, but now there was something “ugly and evil in his face” (9.17).
In fact, some people start to think that Dimmesdale is being haunted and hunted by Satan himself in the guise of Chillingworth.

Question 22

names of chapter 6-9

Answer 22

Pearl
The governors Hall
The Elf-Child and the Minister
The leech

Question 23

around how many years have passed before and during the course of these chapters

Answer 23

2-3 yeaers

Question 24

chillingworth starts to take on more ______ features

Answer 24

devilish

Question 25

hester's argument that dimmesdale should back her to keep pearl

Answer 25

Speak thou for me!’ cried she. ‘Thou wast my pastor, and hadst charge of my soul, and knowest me better than these men can. I will not lose the child! Speak for me! Thou knowest—for thou hast sympathies which these men lack—thou knowest what is in my heart, and what are a mother’s rights, and how much the stronger they are when that mother has but her child and the scarlet letter! Look thou to it! I will not lose the child! Look to it!’

Question 26

quote where roger finds out dimmesdale is the husband

Answer 26

You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness"

Question 27

governor bellinham's sister name

Answer 27

Mistress Hibbins

Question 28

why does roger take the name chillingworth instead of Prynne

Answer 28

to keep his identity a secret

Question 29

vigil?

Answer 29

a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.

Question 30

what is the real reason for chillingworth moving in with dimmesdale

Answer 30

to investigate and try to get dimmesdale to confess to the adultery.