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D. Settlers were dependent on Native Americans for survival in the wilderness beyond the settlement.
In Chapter 4 of The Scarlet Letter, the circumstances of Roger Chillingworth’s arrival in the settlement reveals these things about the time period in which the novel takes place.
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