Hester
Dimmesdale
Chillingworth
The Narrator
Familiar Phrases
100

This is the reason Hester first resists Chillingworth's attempts to give her child medicine?

What is fear of poisoning?

100

Dimmesdale dies on this public structure which represents punishment and penance.

What is the scaffold?

100

Chillingworth has been living with this group of people before arriving in Boston.

Who are Native Americans?

100

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?

100

Someone angry about a past event might be balancing a "chip" here

What is on their shoulder?

200

This plant grows beside the prison where Hester is kept.

What is a rose bush?

200

This gesture characterizes Dimmesdale's sin and becomes a fixation of Pearl's attention.

What is clutching his heart?

200

This deformity helps Hester identify Chillingworth in the crowd at the Marketplace.

What is his hunchback?

200

The narrator discovers the cloth of the scarlet letter and the manuscript in this location in the Custom House.

What is the attic?

200

Plans may not work out, so "don't" practice this act of poultry accounting

What is count your chickens before they hatch?

300

This is the one occasion for which Hester is never asked to make clothing.

What is a wedding?

300

DAILY DOUBLE

This feeling causes Dimmesdale to scream from the scaffold during his midnight vigil on the scaffold.

300

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?

300

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?

300

To "throw someone under" this vehicle is to make them a scapegoat

What is the bus?

400

Upon her death, Hester is buried beside this person.

Who is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale?

400
Dimmesdale punishes himself through starvation, whipping, and by holding these in which he remains awake.

What are vigils?

400

Chillingworth gives his fortunes and land to this character upon his death.

Who is Pearl?

400

While the narrator is unnamed, he has similar characteristics to the story's author.

Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?

400

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?

500

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?

500

This important day is the reason Dimmesdale gives a life changing sermon towards the end of the novel.

What is Election Day?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

Chillingworth was presumed dead because he had been away from Hester for this many years prior to his return to Boston.

500

The original manuscript is written by this officer of the Custom House according to the narrator.

Who is Surveyor Pue?

500

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?