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The Crucible Unit 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Local farmer, Elizabeth Proctor's husband, tries to prove the court is false. Save his wife from being accused. Had an affair with Abigail. Ends of being hung. | John Proctor |
| John Proctor's wife, fired Abigail when she found out her husband was having an affair with Abigail. Lies in court to save her husband. | Elizabeth Proctor |
| Beautiful and willful seventeen year old orphan who lives with her uncle. She wants revenge on Elizabeth because she loves John. | Abigail Williams |
| Abigail's Uncle. Cares about his reputation more than his daughter's and Abigail's well-being | Reverend Parris |
| leader of the court. cares about his authority. | Judge Hathorn |
| Slave to Parris from Barbados. takes girls into the woods dances around the fire. girls blame her. she starts blaming others to get out of it | Tituba |
| 1.What did Parris see in the woods? | girls dancing around a fire. one was naked. |
| 2. What do the people of Salem often argue about? | land ownership |
| 3. Why did Tituba, Abigail, and Betty begin calling out the names of all those women as witches at the end of Act I of The Crucible? | Hale puts it in there heads that it will spare them a whipping. |
| 4. What can be inferred about the values of the Puritan society from the discussion John Proctor had with Reverend Parris, Mr. Putnam, Giles Corey and Rebecca Nurse in Act I? | Church attendance was important. Even if you do not like your preacher |
| 5. From Act I it can be inferred that the Puritans associated the forest with: | evil. devil's last playground. |
| 6. How does Reverend Parris's belief in the supernatural affect his response to his daughter's illness? | Believes it so he calls Reverend Hale. He does not want his reputation ruined. |
| *****7. From his comments in Act I, it can be inferred that Parris's concern for his daughter is primarily based on his: | anxiety on own reputation. |
| Parris's daughter. pretends to be bewitch. Hale comes to heal her | Betty Parris |
| "Expert" in witchcraft. Quits the court when he sees innocent people being killed. tries to get the condemned to confess | Reverned Hale |
| New servant to the proctors. gives a poppet to Elizabeth. Was gonna say u | Mary Warren |
| argues to putnam about land. is pressed to death. says his wife was reading stange books and he couldnt pray | Giles Corey |
| wife of giles. gets hung with john proctor | Martha Corey |
| oldest most respected woman in the village. voice of reason. said the whole issue was a joke. the girls will be girls | Rebecca Nurse |
| wealthiest in Salem. accused a lot of his neighbors to buy their land | Thomas Putnam |
| 8. Why is Reverend John Hale summoned? | to help cure them |
| 9. Who did Abigail say sent her spirit out to choke herin court? | Elizabeth |
| 10. Describe John and Elizabeth Proctor's relationship before and after the witch trials.. | before- werent talking a lot. didnt trust eachother. after- they loved each other more |
| ***11. Why does Proctor forget the commandment forbidding adultery? | Guilty conscience |
| 12. What reason does John Proctor give Reverend Hale for his absence from church? | doesnt think reverend parris is godly enough |
| 13. Proctor believes that Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft because: | abigail wants revenge. |
| 14. Hale's interview with Proctor reveals Hale to be: | worried about the accusations of the good people |
| 15. When Elizabeth says to Proctor, "The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you," she means that Proctor: | knows he is guilty. she does not judge him anymore. he judges himself. |
| 16. What is Proctor's attitude toward Reverend Parris> | Parris is too obsessed with wealth and expensive things than god |
| 17. What is implied about human nature by the number of accusations that are brought fourth in Act II? | People want to blame others when something goes wrong for them |
| 18.What evidence does Cheever use to arrest Elizabeth for witchcraft? | a poppet with a needle in its stomach |
| 19. In the beginning of Act IV, Tituba and Sarah good are doing what? | Waiting for the devil to take them to barbaos |
| 20. When Reverend Hale appears in Act III, how has he changed since the events of Act II? | He is more skeptical of the fairness of the justice of the court. |
| 21. In Act III, Judge Hathorne and Danforth seem to be most troubled about the possibility that | authority may be undermined |
| 22. What is Proctor's main purpose in bringing Mary Warren to court? | to save his wife from hanging form something she didnt do |
| 23. In Act III of The Crucible, what can the audience infer form Judge Hathorne's questioning of Martha Corey? | one's guilty til proven guilty |
| 24. What does Proctor mean when he tells Danforth, " God dams our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together"? | those that did bad things and know it are guiltiest of all |
| 25. What does Abigail Williams do as soon as Danforth begins to question her? | begins to cry |
| ***26. Elizabeth's motivation for lying about John's affair with Abigail is that: | she loves john and wants to protect him |
| 27. At the beginning of Act IV, how was the relationship between John and Elizabeth Proctor changed? | They started to love each other more. |
| 28. Danforth treats Parris with contempt because: | He thinks that Parris was a fool to trust Abigail Parris. |
| 29. In Act IV Parris hopes Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor will confess they are witches because he believes that: | It will prevent public rebellion and save their life. |
| 30. What lesson has Elizabeth Proctor learned during her three months' imprisonment? | no standard just chaos |