LITERATURE QUESTIONS
PURITAN LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In The Scarlet Letter, Pearl refuses to join her mother at the brook until Hester replaces the scarlet letter on her breast. Hester tells Pearl to “bring it hither, ” to which Pearl replies “Come thou and take it up.” She will not pick up the scarlet letter because the symbolic punishment belongs to Hester.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why doesn’t Pearl recognize Hester? Hester has flowers in her hair. Hester is wearing a mask. Pearl is pretending not to know who she is.
Detailed explanation-3: -In any number of places, she reminds Hester that she must wear, and continue to wear, the scarlet letter. When they go to the forest and Hester removes the A, Pearl makes her put it back on. She tells her mother that “the sunshine does not love you.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pearls returns at her mother’s calling but stops at the brook which separates her from Hester and Dimmesdale. She refuses to come across, not recognizing her mother who has discarded her scarlet letter.