1. This is Jeopardy!

2. Symbolism Character & Setting Morals & Puritan Ideals Psychological Ideas 100 200 300 400 500

3. Final Jeopardy The Category is… Hawthorne’s Use of Romanticism Make Your Wagers

4. As noticed by Pearl, this aspect of nature does strange things when it is around Hester. What is light (sunlight)? Fifteen Seconds on the Clock Time Is Up!

5. Symbolism: 100 In the eyes of the town, the A is a symbol of this What is adultery? Time is Up !

6. Symbolism: 200 The forest is a symbol of this What evil? Time is Up !

7. Symbolism: 300 This place represents heavenly judgment What is the scaffold? Time is Up !

8. Symbolism: 400 Pearls name represents this What the sand in Hester’s soul turned beautiful? Time is Up !

9. Symbolism: 500 The actions of Hester & Dimmesdale at the end of the novel represent this What is repentance? Time is Up !

10. Characters & Setting: 100 This character suffers for unrelenting inner torment Who is Dimmesdale? Time is Up !

11. Characters & Setting: 200 This setting represents the unknown as well as an evil pact What is the forest? Time is Up !

12. Characters & Setting: 300 This character is the essence of freedom Who is Pearl? Time is Up !

13. Characters & Setting: 400 This character’s life is corrupted beyond return Who is Chillingworth? Time is Up !

14. Characters & Setting: 500 This setting is the scene of greatest shame, as well as that of greatest repentance What is the scaffolding? Time is Up !

15. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 100 The breaking of this law is why Hester is shunned. What is adultery? Time is Up !

16. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 200 This is what corruptedChillingworth. What is revenge? Time is Up !

17. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 300 Dimmesdale was worried about this when he would not tell about his relationship with Hester. What is his reputation/job? Time is Up !

18. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 400 This type of law Shunned Hester. What is natural law? Time is Up !

19. Morals & Puritan Ideals: 500 This moral caused Dimmesdale to be depressed when he would not tell anyone about his relationship with Hester. What is guilt? Time is Up !

20. Psychological Ideas: 100 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. Time is Up !

21. Psychological Ideas: 200 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 Time is Up !

22. Psychological Ideas: 300 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. Time is Up !

23. Psychological Ideas: 400 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 Time is Up !

24. Psychological Ideas: 500 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. Time is Up !