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| Answer |
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| 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 |