1. How is Hester acting and feeling during the Election Day ceremonies?
Chapter 21
What is Election Day?
How is Hester acting and feeling during the Election Day ceremonies?
What about Pearl?
What is revealed to Hester at the end of the chapter?

2. Chapter 22
How does Hawthorne characterize those who are part of the procession?
Why is Hester so intent to make eye contact with Dimmesdale?
Why is Hester offended by Mister Hibbins?
How is Hester affected by Dimmesdale’s speech?
What does Pearl do during the speech? How is she characterized?
How doe the people at the Election Day celebration respond to Hester’s A?

3. Chapter 23
What happens to Dimmesdale as he gives his speech? How is his audience affected by it?
After giving his speech, where does Dimmesdale go? Why?
How does he feel about what he is going to do? Hester? Chillingworth?
What physical trait does Dimmesdale reveal to the crowd?
What change in behavior does Pearl experience?
How does Dimmesdale seem to feel during his last moments? Why?

4. Chapter 24
What are the theories for how the letter came to be on Dimmesdale’s chest?
Does everyone believe that Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father? Theory?
According to Hawthorne, what is the moral of Dimmesdale’s story?
What happens to Chillingworth after Dimmesdale’s death?
What does Chillingworth do for Pearl? What is her fate?
What happens to Hester? Why return to New England?