ITW Characters
Into the Wild
Mixed Bag
Scarlet Letter
Crucible Background
100

This old man wanted to adopt Chris.

Who is Ron Franz?

100

In addition to boots, Jim Gallien gives this to Chris.

What is his lunch?

100

In Puritan culture, these two institutions where virtually the same.

What are religion and law?

100

Hawthorne uses this building to show that crime is an unfortunate inevitability in society.

What is a prison/jail?

100

This current event spurred Miller to write The Crucible

McCarthyism/HUAC

200

Chris helped this woman sell books and knickknacks at a huge flea market.

Who is Jan Burres?
200

This is the primary reason Chris refused when his parents offered to buy him a car.

What is he refused to let them buy his respect?

200

These are the five tenets of Transcendentalism.

What are self-reliance, nonconformity, importance of nature, simplified life, and intuition over reason?

200

Hawthorne use this plant to symbolize the persistence of grace amid human cruelty.

What is a rosebush/rose?

200

This governmental body's task was to root out communism, especially in Hollywood.

What is HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee? 

300

Not only did Chris work at this man's grain elevator; he adopted his state as his new home.

Who is Wayne Westerman?

300
This is the natural phenomenon that damaged Chris's Datsun, causing him to leave it behind.

What is a flash flood?

300
The number of women Walt McCandless was in long-term relationships with before and after Chris's birth.

What is two?

300

When Hester exits the prison, this is her demeanor.

What is dignified?

300

These two events, three hundred years apart, are linked by false accusations and public punishments

What are the Salem Witch Trials and McCarthyism?

400

This man dropped off Chris at the edge of the Alaskan wild. 

Who is Jim Gallien?

400

Chris made this fashion accessory after Ron Franz taught him how to work leather. 

What is a belt?

400

This man thought an ideal Christian community would love and help each other.

Who is John Winthrop?

400

The elaborate physical appearance of this item demonstrates Hester's creativity and defiance of society standards.

What is... THE SCARLET LETTER!!???

400

This is the number of people who Arthur Miller informed on when called before the HUAC.

What is zero?

500

This woman--who we literally never talked about--was Wayne Westerman's girlfriend. 

Who is Gail Borah?

500

This is what Alaskans thought the greenhorn kook Chris McCandless was undeserving of.

What is attention and publicity?

500

This kind of city is visible to everyone, so the world will know if they succeed for fail.

What is a City on a Hill?

500
That Hester's punishment involves standing here to demonstrates her society's obsession with public display of morality

What is on the scaffold in the market-place?

500

The group of Hollywood folks who refused to cooperate with the HUAC were known as this.

Who is the Hollywood 10?