1. The Scarlet Letter
Chapter 5 questions

2. Chapter 4
What do we learn of Roger Chillingworth? His motivations? His character? His reasons for staying in Boston?
What promise does he ask from Hester?

3. Chapter 5: Read and Answer
1. How does Hester make a living for herself and her child beginning in this chapter? Explain the meaning of penance, usually thought of as a Catholic discipline. How does Hester’s actions in chapter 5 constitute a type of penance?
2. How does Hester respond to the criticisms of the townspeople as she walks through the streets of Boston?

4. Chapter 1 symbols
The prison door Even a Utopian society needs a place to punish its wrongdoers.
The cemetery death is certainly a part of any society, even one founded upon “Godly principles”
The grassy plot with weeds springing up
The wild rose bush. . . “a sweet moral blossom” This symbol offers hope in a tale of sorrow and human suffering