Hester
This is the reason Hester first resists Chillingworth's attempts to give her child medicine?
What is fear of poisoning?
Dimmesdale dies on this public structure which represents punishment and penance.
What is the scaffold?
Chillingworth has been living with this group of people before arriving in Boston.
Who are Native Americans?
According to the narrator, these are the two necessities that the founders of a new colony must provide.
What are a prison and a graveyard?
Someone angry about a past event might be balancing a "chip" here
What is on their shoulder?
This plant grows beside the prison where Hester is kept.
What is a rose bush?
This gesture characterizes Dimmesdale's sin and becomes a fixation of Pearl's attention.
What is clutching his heart?
This deformity helps Hester identify Chillingworth in the crowd at the Marketplace.
What is his hunchback?
The narrator discovers the cloth of the scarlet letter and the manuscript in this location in the Custom House.
What is the attic?
Plans may not work out, so "don't" practice this act of poultry accounting
What is count your chickens before they hatch?
This is the one occasion for which Hester is never asked to make clothing.
What is a wedding?
DAILY DOUBLE
This feeling causes Dimmesdale to scream from the scaffold during his midnight vigil on the scaffold.
The town uses this term to refer to Chillingworth because he is taking away Dimmesdale's energy and the common medical practice of the time.
What is the Leech?
The narrator holds the cloth letter to his bosom and says it does this which causes him to drop the cloth in shock.
What is burn?
To "throw someone under" this vehicle is to make them a scapegoat
What is the bus?
Upon her death, Hester is buried beside this person.
Who is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale?
What are vigils?
Chillingworth gives his fortunes and land to this character upon his death.
Who is Pearl?
While the narrator is unnamed, he has similar characteristics to the story's author.
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Trying again after a failure is going "back to" this, a synonym for drafting table or an item on a drafting table.
What is drawing board?
This place at the pillory is where Hester had to take her stand. But she doesn't just stand there in the beginning there. She stands there 3 times during the course of the novel.
What is the scaffold?
This important day is the reason Dimmesdale gives a life changing sermon towards the end of the novel.
What is Election Day?
DAILY DOUBLE
Chillingworth was presumed dead because he had been away from Hester for this many years prior to his return to Boston.
The original manuscript is written by this officer of the Custom House according to the narrator.
Who is Surveyor Pue?
A possible origin for "living" this way is that upper cuts of pork are more of a luxury item than the feet.
What is high on the hog?