Note to moderator: Please read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Description acceptable. While watching this location, a man with an Indian attendant makes a shush gesture before saying “he will be known” three times. Townspeople conjecture that an object revealed at this location was caused by a necromancer called a “leech,” who repeats “Thou hast escaped me” at this location. John Wilson leads a public interrogation at this location, where three characters see an event that townspeople interpret as Governor Winthrop becoming an angel. This location is below a balcony where (*) Governor Bellingham sits. An “elfish” child finally kisses her reverend father at this location. Three characters form an “electric chain” as they watch a meteor at this location, where Arthur Dimmesdale reveals a red mark on his chest to a crowd and dies. For 10 points, Hester Prynne stands at what place for three hours as punishment for her adultery in The Scarlet Letter? ■END■
ANSWER: the scaffold in The Scarlet Letter [accept stocks or pillory or platform or pedestal or gallows or reasonable equivalents; prompt on any answers indicating a location where Hester Prynne was punished with “what kind of location?”; prompt on marketplace or square with “what specific location?”]
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