| Question | Answer |
| Type of Puritan government | Theocracy |
| Supposedly murdered babies | Rebecca Nurse |
| knowledgable about the law, dies Christian under the law | Giles Cory |
| Slave from Barbados | Tituba |
| got fired for having an affair | Abbigail |
| asked to prove or disprove the presence of witchcraft | Rev. Hale |
| a sickly child who thinks she's possessed | Betty |
| doesn't want to take the accused away | Marshall Herrick |
| proud of the law and thinks the law is always right | Dep. Danforth |
| realizes from the beginning that the girls are fine, a reasonable character | Rebecca Nurse |
| when events and characters in a story really represent other situations and people | allegory |
| fear of communism in the 50s | Red Scare |
| person behind the Red Scare and people being blacklisted | Sen. McCarthy |
| people with this demonstarted industriousness, simplicity, education, responsibility, self-reliance | Grace or possible members of the Elect |
| innocent until proven guilty, importance of education, individual rights, equality, hard work | Puritan legacy |
| opposite of what you think should happen or should be said | irony |
| rich man who is upset his relative is not the reverend and has money to buy land | Thomas Putnam |
| she cannot lie | Elizabeth Proctor |
| supposedly a voodoo doll | poppet |
| does not go to church often, dislikes the gold candlesticks, nailed on the church roof | John Proctor |
| worked for the Proctors, tried to tell the truth | Marry Warren |
| reads strange books and kills pigs | Martha Cory |
| saying one thing but doing another | hypocrisy |
| accused of being a communist but wouldn't name names | Arthur Miller |
| a severe test or trial, a pot for melting down metals which separates the good from the bad | crucible |
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Ch.18 LTI-MA 509
