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The Crucible

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Context

Plot Overview

Character List

Analysis of Major Characters

Themes, Motifs & Symbols

Act I: Opening scene to the entrance of John Proctor

Act I: The entrance of John Proctor to the entrance of Reverend Hale

Act I: The entrance of Reverend Hale to the closing scene

Act II

Act III

Act IV–Epilogue

Important Quotations Explained

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The Crucible

Arthur Miller

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1. What kind of government does Salem have in The Crucible?

(A) Democracy

(B) Theocracy

(D) Kleptocracy

2. What is Parris's position in Salem?

(A) Governor

(B) Judge

(D) Bailiff

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

(A) Trying to run away from home

(B) Dancing in the forest

(D) Conducting a black mass in the church

4. Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire Abigail?

(A) Abigail was too proud

(B) Abigail didn't work hard enough

(D) Abigail was having an affair with John Proctor

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

(A) Judge Danforth

(B) Reverend Hale

(D) John Proctor

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

(A) They focus too much on fire and brimstone

(B) They are too long

(D) They are too short

7. What does Mrs. Putnam blame on witchcraft?

(A) Her husband's cancer

(B) The death of seven of her children in infancy

(D) Raids by natives

8. Who is the first person that Abigail claims practiced witchcraft?

(A) Tituba

(B) John Proctor

(D) Mary Warren

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

(A) A cake

(B) A bonnet

(D) A little doll

10. What news does Mary Warren bring from Salem?

(A) That someone accused Elizabeth of witchcraft

(B) That the witch trials have ended

(D) That Reverend Hale is ill

11. Which commandment does John Proctor forget when Reverend Hale quizzes him?

(A) Thou shalt not kill

(B) Thou shalt not commit adultery

(D) Thou shalt not covet

12. Whom do Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick, the marshal, come to the Proctor home to arrest?

(A) John Proctor

(B) Reverend Hale

(D) Elizabeth Proctor

13. To what does John Proctor convince Mary Warren to testify?

(A) That the girls are only pretending to be possessed

(B) That Abigail is a witch

(D) That he and Abigail slept together

14. Who is in charge of the court?

(A) Giles Corey

(B) Danforth

(D) Parris

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

(A) Because she is a woman

(B) Because the Puritans do not allow capital punishment

(D) Because John Proctor is well respected

16. On what charge is Giles Corey arrested?

(A) Witchcraft

(B) Murder

(D) Slander

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

(A) They all confess

(B) They attack her

(D) They claim that John Proctor has bewitched Mary

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

(A) He tells the court about his affair with her

(B) He accuses her of witchcraft

(D) He tells the court that Abigail is a man dressed as a woman

19. Who is brought in to corroborate John Proctor's claims about Abigail?

(A) Elizabeth Proctor

(B) Rebecca Nurse

(D) Parris

20. What does Elizabeth do when called upon to testify?

(A) Keeps silent

(B) Tells a lie

(D) Kills herself

21. What does the court do with John Proctor?

(A) It frees him and sends him home

(B) It orders him stoned to death

(D) It arrests and tries him for witchcraft

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

(A) Kill himself

(B) Blame someone else

(D) Refuse to confess

23. Why does Proctor retract his confession?

(A) Because the officials demand that he sign his name to it

(B) Because Hale asks him to

(D) Because Abigail confesses

24. What does Abigail do at the end of the play?

(A) She kills herself

(B) She flees Salem, after robbing her uncle

(D) She is revealed as a witch

25. What ultimately happens to John Proctor?

(A) He is freed

(B) He kills himself

(D) He is hanged

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