The Scarlet Letter Chapters 13 - 18 READING CHECK

TRUE/FALSE

1. _____ Hester is shocked at how well Arthur looke after the night standing on the scaffold.

2. _____ Hester is so humble her "A" comes to mean "Angel" or "Able" to some people.

3. _____ Hester hides her hair and beauty from the public now.

4. _____ Hester resolved to leave Boston before it kills her.

5. _____ Roger shocks Hester because in only seven years, he has transformed his features to resemble the devil

6. _____ Chillingworth tells Hester that Dimmedale has increased his debt to Roger and her.

7. _____ After her interview with her husband, Hester resolves to keep "the leech's secret a while longer."

8. _____ Little Pearl goes to play on the margin of the water with the shells and seaweed while her mother talks to Chillingworth.

9. _____ Hester reveals to Pearl what the letter means.

10. _____ It takes several months for Hester to finally catch Arthur Dimmesdale alone.

11. _____ Dimmesdale has been in the forest visiting the Apostle Eliot.

12. _____ Seven years have finally given Hester some peace.

13. _____ Arthur's good works for the church have made him totally miserable.

14. _____ Hester decides that Arthur and her must go their separate ways, she going to England, he to the forest to convert the natives to Christianity.

15. _____ Arthur's only thought is to die upon the "withered leaves of the forest.".

16. _____ Hester finds it very hard to leave Boston.

17. _____ Arthur Dimmesdale finds it very hard to leave Boston.

18. _____ Hester says they must "forget the past."

19. _____ To show they are to begin a new path, Hester lets her hair down and takes off the scarlet letter and throws it toward the brook.

20. _____ Dimmesdale is anxious and excited to meet his daughter for the first time.

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