Question 1

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"I pray you, good Sir. Who is this woman? - and wherefore is she here set up to public shame."

Question 2

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"I am stranger, and have been a wanderer, sorely against my will. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen folk, to the southward."

Question 3

Rev. John Wilson

Accepted Answer

"Knowing your natural temper better than I, he could the better judge what arguments to use, whether of tenderness or terror, such as might prevail over your hardness and obstinacy."

Question 4

Rev. John Wilson

Accepted Answer

"Speak to the woman, my brother. Exhort her to confess the truth!"

Question 5

Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

Accepted Answer

"I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and thy fellow-sufferer!"

Question 6

Townsman

Accepted Answer

"They have doomed Mistress Prynne to stand only a space of three hours on the platform of the pillory, an then and thereafter, for the remainder of her natural life, to wear a mark of shame upon her bosom."

Question 7

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"But he will be known! -he will be known! -he will be known!"

Question 8

Rev. John Wilson

Accepted Answer

"Cans't thou tell me, my child, who made thee?"

Question 9

Mistress Hibbins

Accepted Answer

"Hist, hist! Wilt thou go with us tonight? There will be a merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne should make one."

Question 10

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"From the moment that we came down the old church steps together, a married pair, I might have beheld the bale of fire of the scarlet letter blazing at the end of our path."

Question 11

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"Come and look into this fair garden. It may be we shall see flowers there; more beautiful ones than we find in the woods."

Question 12

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"She is my happiness! She is my torture nonetheless."

Question 13

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"Speak thou for me! Thou wast my pastor, and hadst changed my soul, knowest me better than these men can."

Question 14

Children

Accepted Answer

"There is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side! Come, therefore, and let us sling mud at them!"

Question 15

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"My old studies in alchemy and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than that many that can claim the medical degree."

Question 16

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"I shall seek this man as I have sought truth in books."

Question 17

Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

Accepted Answer

"A good evening to you, venerable Father Wilson! Come up hither, I pray you, and pass a pleasant hour with me!"

Question 18

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"I have been watching at a deathbed—at Governor Winthrop's deathbed..."

Question 19

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"I would speak a word with you. A word that concerns us much."

Question 20

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"You search his thoughts. You burrow and rankle in his heart! Your clutch is on his life, and you cause him to die daily a living death; and still he knows you not."

Question 21

Roger Chillingworth

Accepted Answer

"It is our fate. Let the black flower blossom as it may. Now go thy ways, and deal as thou wilt with yonder man."

Question 22

Pearl

Accepted Answer

"The sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand here, and let me run and catch it."

Question 23

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"Once in my life I met the Black Man."

Question 24

Hester Prynne

Accepted Answer

"The people reverence thee, and surely thou workest good among them! Doth this bring thee no comfort?"

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