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What is Hester's attitude on the day of the election sermon?

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as hester had once done, Dimmesdale ascends the scaffold. At what time of day does he do this? what compels?

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Comment on the following lines:I whom you behold in these black garments of the priesthood...am utterly a pollution and a lie.

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What is meant by the title "the minister`s vigil"?

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Does Dimmesdale really have a scarlet letter inscribed on his cheast or was it mere imagination?

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How has Hester's appearance changed ?

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who is hester

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What marks particular attendants of the holiday as members of their forest settlements?

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What is Peas response?

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Whose footsteps are heard at the end of the chapter?

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In chapter 17 Hester and Dimmesdale break a seven-year silence. After they move to the shadow of the woods and speak casually, what does Dimmesdale ask her?

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What does Hester reveal about "that old man!-the physician!-he whom they call Roger Chillingworth?

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In chapter 18, what does the narrator say "the clergyman resolved"

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After asking whether Hetser thinks Pearl will "be glad to know" him, what does Dimmesdale admit having felt about Pearl?

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After Hester says, "let us not look back," what dramatic action does she take?

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Hester urges the minister to leave the town for the wilderness. What does she declare at the very end of chapter 17?

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Whom does Dimmesdale blame and then forgive for keeping this secret?

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Gazing at Pearl, Hester has a " morbid desire" to question her. What does she ask?

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After Hester tries to join Pearl in the sun, about whom does Pearl ask Hester?

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In chapter 16, what does Hester learn "while attending in a sick chamber"?

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In chapter 15 Hester watches the doctordepart. What does she feel toward him?

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At the end of chapter 14, what does the doctor tell her to do about Dimmesdale?

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As and Hester argue, the doctor says he "could reveal a goodly secret." To whom does he then say Dimmesdale owes his life?

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According to the narrator in chapter 14, the doctor, "was a striking evidencde" of one of man's faculties. Into what has the doctor transformed himself?

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Near the end of chapter 13, the narrator says that Hester "determined to reedem her error" involving Chillingworth's secret identity. What does she then do?

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