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  • What do we find out about Abigail in Act IV?
    She stole Parris' money and ran away with Mercy
  • What happens to Giles Corey?
    He is stoned to death for not answering his indictment.
  • Give one reason why the Proctor household is "suspicious"
    Proctor does not attend church regularly; the younger son has not been baptized; he could not remember all of the commandments.
  • Why was John Proctor hanged on August 19, 1692 in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem Witch Trials?
    John Proctor chooses to guard his reputation and not accuse others of witchcraft.
  • Why was Rebecca Nurse arrested?
    For the murder of Goody Putnam's babies
  • When asked about whether or not other townsfolks had association with the Devil, John Proctor does what?
    protects everyone else by denying s each specific account.
  • What does Mrs. Putnam claim to have seen in Act I?
    Betty flying over a neighbor's barn
  • Why did the Putnam's accuse Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft?
    Putnam focuses her jealousy and animosity upon Rebecca Nurse because Rebecca never lost one of her eleven children.
  • Why doesn't Mary want to testify about the doll?
    She is afraid of Abigail
  • Identify the Literary Device: The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of hell upon her.
    a simile
  • When the audience knows something the characters don't
    dramatic irony
  • Identify the literary device: Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.
    an allusion
  • The play takes place in
    Salem Massachusetts
  • What were Betty and Abigail doing in the forest when Rev. Parris frightened them?
    dancing and conjuring spirits with Tituba
  • True or False: The Puritans lived under a theocracy
    True: God is viewed as the supreme leader.
  • What will happen to Proctor if he tries to discredit Abigail or tell everyone she's lying?
    She will claim that she has seen him with the Devil
  • What do the villagers do to show Parris that they are tired of hangings?
    a knife in the door
  • What are Giles Corey's last words?
    "More weight"
  • 91 people signed a deposition attesting to the good character of these three women:
    Martha Corey, Elizabeth Proctor, Rebecca Nurse
  • When Proctor brought Mary Warren to the court, her job was to tell the court that
    the other girls were lying, and she never saw the devil
  • Who had an affair with John Proctor?
    Abigail
  • What type of drama is The Crucible?
    a tragedy
  • What is the climax of The Crucible?
    John's refusal to sign the confession provides the moment of climax-that one's honor cannot be signed away.
  • What was the deciding factor in Elizabeth's arrest?
    She had the poppet with a needle in it
  • Who gave Elizabeth the poppet?
    Mary Warren
  • The play took place in this year
    1692
  • Why does Tituba confess to dealing with the Devil?
    She feared she would be hanged if she did not confess.
  • Literature in play form is known as a
    drama
  • John Proctor was 100% sure his wife had never done what in her life?
    lie
  • Why did Mrs. Putnam send her daughter to Tituba?
    To have Ruth talk to the spirits of her dead siblings
  • Who does Abigail initially blame for witchcraft?
    Tituba
  • Why doesn't Abigail want Parris and the others to know what she was doing in the forest?
    She drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife
  • What was the only way to be set free if you were accused of being a witch?
    admit to being a witch AND implicating others
  • Why does Elizabeth think that Abigail wants to kill her?
    She believes Abigail wants to take her place as John's wife
  • John Proctor and Thomas Putnam have a dispute over...
    Land
  • What does Judge Hathorne ask Mary to do to prove she has been faking attacks from accused witches in the courtroom?
    faint
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