Crucible Act I

Question 1

Minding other's people's business

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Created many suspicions, Led to the witch trials

Question 2

Character who believed he was being persecuted by his enemies?

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Rev. Parris

Question 3

Puritans were seeking freedom, but did not allow other religions this freedom. Example of...

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Situational Irony

Question 4

Mrs. Putnam: The Psalms! the Psalms! She cannot bear to hear the Lord's name!

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Indirect Characterization

Question 5

What did Reverend Parris see in the forest?

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The girls dancing and Tituba waving her arms over the pot.

Question 6

Puritan view of the forest:

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place of witches, ghost and evil spirits, Last place that did not pay homage to God.

Question 7

What were the true motives behind some people accusing their neighbors of witchcraft?

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Struggle for power in the community, Land disputes, Boundary Issues

Question 8

Tituba prays. Audience knows she is asking for protection from Rev. Hale & Parris.

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dramatic irony

Question 9

Proctor does not believe witchcraft is to blame for girls' illness, but Putnam does.

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Conflict

Question 10

To the European world the whole province is a barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of...

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fanatics

Question 11

Were not allowed to play, but were expected to work. Be seen, but not heard.

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Children

Question 12

What conclusion can you draw?Abigail thinks she knows about the world than the other women from

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her awareness of village gossip.

Question 13

Reverend Hale was called to Salem to _____ if witchcraft was present.

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ascertain

Question 14

Parris:(scrambling to his feet in a fury) Out of my sight!..(Overcome with sobs, is exhausted)

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Direct Characterization

Question 15

Why does Ann Putnam send Ruth to Tituba?

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To speak to Ann's dead babies.

Question 16

What problem in Salem encourages people to turn against each other?

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People are quick to take offense & sue each other in court.

Question 17

How do you protect the freedom of your citizens and maintain order?

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Paradox

Question 18

Rev. Parris's main concern about Abigail?

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Her actions will reflect badly on him.

Question 19

The reason the Puritans survived in the New World.

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Hard work

Question 20

Mrs. Putnam: My mom told me that when they can not bear to hear the name of--

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Indirect Characterization

Question 21

Francis Nurse was called upon to _______ disputes as though he were an unofficial judge.

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arbitrate

Question 22

Wrote "The Crucible" after the Red Scare.

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Arthur Miller

Question 23

Rev Parris is praying...a sense of confusion hangs about him, he mumbles, then is about to weep

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Direct Characterization

Question 24

Mrs. Putnam: Mark it for a sign, mark it!

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Indirect Characterization

Question 25

Proctor cut down wood on land that Putnam claims is his.

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Complication

Question 26

What does Rebecca Nurse say will cure the girls' apparent illness?

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Growing tired of their silly behavior.

Question 27

Abigail Wms, 17, enters--beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling.

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Direct Characterization

Question 28

Arthur Miller, playwright, intensifies the conflict through Thomas Putnam's

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Insistence that witchcraft exists in Salem.

Question 29

Mary Warren is 17, a _____ naive, lonely girl.

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subservient

Question 30

"This ______ for minding other people's business was time-honored..."

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predilection

Question 31

"Quavering as she sits." What does this tell us about Abigail & Rev Parris?

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Reverend Parris makes her nervous.

Question 32

T.Putnam tried to break his father's will because it left a _____ amount to his step-brother.

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disproportionate

Question 33

Which is true of Puritan views of Indians?

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Better to take Indian land than a Christian's., The Savages needed to be converted to Christianity.

Question 34

Reverend Hale shows his education and authority by...

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Bringing books with him to Salem.

Question 35

"When did you compact with the devil?"

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loaded language

Question 36

Abigail (quavering as she sits)

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Direct Characterization

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