THE SCARLET LETTER  REVIEW QUESTIONS     

CHAPTER III

1)      While Hester stands on the scaffold, one man in the crowd catches her attention.
       What slight physical deformity is evident in the man?

2)      The deformed man tells one of the townspeople that he has “met with grievous mishaps by sea and land,
       and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk…” In modern, everyday language, what happened to him?

3) What does Reverend Wilson beg Hester to do while she is standing on the scafford?

CHAPTER IV

1.      Why does Master Brackett call a doctor to the jail to see Hester?

2.      What is the doctor’s name?

3.      Why does Hester fear the doctor?

4.      What bit of information does the doctor want from Hester? What promise does Hester make to the doctor?