The Scarlet Letter

While the Custom House introduction is set in these years, The Scarlet Letter is set in these years.

• 1600s; 1400s

• 1700s; 1500s

• 1800s; 1600s

• 1900s; 1700s

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Where does the narrator in the Custom House Introduction live?

• Boston

• London

• New York

• Salem

What does the narrator first discover about Hester?

• That she wore the scarlet letter in shame.

• That she had two children at a young age.

• That she was an honored woman among the Puritans.

• That she was a traveling nurse who also gave out advice.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Who is the narrator of this story?

• Hester Prynne

• P.P. Clerk, Surveyor

• An anonymous Custom-House officer

• Surveyor Pue

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Based on the Custom House Introduction, what conclusion can you draw about it?

• The daily business is vitally important to the community.

• The employees are incompetent, but it doesn't matter because business is so slow.

• The Custom House is nearing bankruptcy.

• The Custom House is well-managed and efficient.

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What allows the narrator the time to write the story?

• He is fired.

• He becomes obsessed.

• He becomes an insomniac.

• He has nothing better to do with his time at the Custom House.

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

After she is released from prison, Hester goes to live where?

• In another city in the colony of Massachusetts

• Within the city of Boston

• On the outskirts of Boston

• With Roger Chillingworth

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

How does Hester earn a living?

• By growing crops

• By healing other people

• By her needlework

• By selling wood in Boston

When John Wilson asks Pearl who who maker is, Pearl replies:

• That sin made her

• That she was plucked off of a rose bush

• That Hester and Dimmesdale made her

• That God made her

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What alias did Hester's husband take?

• Roger Prynne

• Roger Chillingworth

• Roger Hamilton

• Roger Frederickson