The Crucible Test Review

Question 1

What commandment does John Proctor forget when Reverend Hale quizzes him?

Accepted Answer

Thou shalt not commit adultery

Question 2

What does Mrs. Putnam blame on witchcraft?

Accepted Answer

The death of seven of her children in infancy

Question 3

What is the significance of the golden candlesticks?

Accepted Answer

they show how corrupt,materialistic Reverend Parris truly is

Question 4

Whom did Abigail drink a blood charm for?

Accepted Answer

John Proctor's wife

Question 5

What is the significance about Danforth's support for Proctor's confession?

Accepted Answer

it shows his interest is in preserving the court,not justice

Question 6

What is the fate of Giles Corey?

Accepted Answer

he is crushed with heavy stones

Question 7

What were Giles Corey's last words?

Accepted Answer

"More weight."

Question 8

On what charge is Giles Corey arrested?

Accepted Answer

contempt of the court

Question 9

What ultimately happens to John Proctor?

Accepted Answer

he is hanged

Question 10

In Act II, what does Mary Warren give to Elizabeth when she returns from the trials?

Accepted Answer

a little doll

Question 11

In Act IV, why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings?

Accepted Answer

it might look as if he has wrongly executed innocent people

Question 12

When John Proctor is facing death, what does Hale urge him to do?

Accepted Answer

confess, even though he is innocent

Question 13

Whom do Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick, the marshal, come to the Proctor house to arrest?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Proctor

Question 14

What is Parris' position in Salem?

Accepted Answer

Minister

Question 15

At first, in Act II, Mary Warren enjoys her role in court because she...

Accepted Answer

likes the power and status she has in the village

Question 16

Who is one of the judges?

Accepted Answer

Hathorne

Question 17

When Mary Warren testifies against them, what do Abigail and her troop of girls do?

Accepted Answer

they claim Mary is bewitching them

Question 18

Reverend Parris is most concerned with...

Accepted Answer

his standing in the church and his reputation

Question 19

What does Elizabeth do when called upon to testify?

Accepted Answer

tells a lie

Question 20

What news does Mary Warren bring from Salem?

Accepted Answer

That someone accused Elizabeth of witchcraft

Question 21

Why is Mrs. Putnam jealous of Rebecca Nurse?

Accepted Answer

All of Rebecca's children & grandchildren are healthy

Question 22

What did John Proctor tear up in Act IV?

Accepted Answer

his confession

Question 23

Who is the first person that Abigail claims practiced witchcraft?

Accepted Answer

Tituba

Question 24

In Act III, Giles Corey is arrested because he refuses to...

Accepted Answer

name the person who accused Putnam of grabbing land

Question 25

Who is brought into corroborate John Proctor's claims about Abigail?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Proctor

Question 26

Parris fears the villagers will be against the court as he tells Danforth and Hathorne about...

Accepted Answer

all of the above

Question 27

In Act IV, what can be concluded from the references made about Andover?

Accepted Answer

the people have rebelled and overthrown the court

Question 28

Why did Giles Corey neither admit nor deny being a witch?

Accepted Answer

a legal loophole would allow his sons to inherit his farm

Question 29

What does John Proctor do in a desperate attempt to foil Abigail?

Accepted Answer

he tells the court about his affair with her

Question 30

Why does Abigail Williams live with Reverend Parris ?

Accepted Answer

she is his niece

Question 31

In the end, why does Reverend Parris wish to spare Proctor?

Accepted Answer

he fears for his life if a respected man is hanged

Question 32

In Act IV, one can infer that Abigail and Mercy have left Salem because they...

Accepted Answer

fear the villagers will turn on them

Question 33

What does Abigail do at the end of the play?

Accepted Answer

she flees from Salem, after robbing her uncle

Question 34

Why do some of the accused admit to witchcraft?

Accepted Answer

they guarantee that they will not be executed

Question 35

Why will Elizabeth not be hanged if she is found guilty?

Accepted Answer

because she is pregnant

Question 36

Before the play begins, what did Parris catch his daughter and other girls doing?

Accepted Answer

dancing in the forest

Question 37

Which character in the play is compared to Pontius Pilate?

Accepted Answer

Reverend Hale

Question 38

What does the court do with John Proctor?

Accepted Answer

it arrests and tries him for witchcraft

Question 39

In Act I, Tituba most likely confessed to meeting with the devil because she...

Accepted Answer

thought it might save her life

Question 40

What is John Proctor's chief complaint against Parris' sermons?

Accepted Answer

They focus too much on fire and brimstone

Question 41

To what does John Proctor convince Mary Warren to testify?

Accepted Answer

That the girls are only pretending to be possessed

Question 42

By the end of Act II, Reverend Hale has begun to worry that...

Accepted Answer

perhaps innocent people are being accused

Question 43

What kind of government does Salem have in The Crucible?

Accepted Answer

Theocracy

Question 44

Who leads the girls in the forest with their dancing?

Accepted Answer

Tituba

Question 45

In Act I, one can infer that the citizens of Salem thought dancing was...

Accepted Answer

evil and sinful

Question 46

Who is in charge of the court?

Accepted Answer

Danforth

Question 47

Why does Proctor retract his confession?

Accepted Answer

because the officials demand that he sign his name to it

Question 48

Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire Abigail?

Accepted Answer

Abigail was having an affair with John Proctor

Question 49

As the play opens, whom has Parris asked to come to Salem?

Accepted Answer

Reverend Hale

Question 50

What does Elizabeth lie about to the court?

Accepted Answer

her husband's affair

The Crucible Test Review

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