From what point of view is the introduction told?
first person point of view
How many years did he spend in The Custom House?
3 years
Where is The Custom House?
Salem, Massachusetts
Where was the narrator/author born?
Salem
Where did his family come from? How long ago?
family came from Britain 225 years ago
What group of people did one of his ancestors belong to?
Puritans
How does the narrator/author feel about his ancestors involved in the witchcraft trials?
He didn't like it
Who gave him the job in The Custom House?
president
What was his job?
a chief executive officer?
What was the political party of most of the men who worked for the narrator/author?
Whigs
What was the political party of the narrator/author?
Democrat
Before working in The Custom House with whom had the narrator/author spent a lot of time?
Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
What does the narrator/author find in The Custom House one rainy day?
packages and papers written by Jonathon Pue and cloth of the letter A
What are they about?
Hester Prynne and the scarlet letter
Why does the narrator/author leave The Custom House?
he gets fired
What does the narrator/author buy?
paper, ink, and pens
What does the narrator/author become again?
writer