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Why does Reverend Hale go to the Proctors' house?

to investigate if Elizabeth Proctor or John Proctor might be guilty of witchcraft

Why does Ezekiel Cheever go to the Proctors' house in Act 2?

to arrest Elizabeth Proctor

At the beginning of Act 2, Elizabeth Proctor believes that her husband

still has some desire for Abigail

What does Deputy Governor Danforth symbolize in court?

all-powerful authority

Proctor rejects the compromise that would grant his wife freedom for one year because he

realizes that he must also stand up for his friends and their accused wives.

What does Giles Corey allege in his deposition about Thomas Putnam’s motives?

He wants Giles Corey dead so that he can have his land.

What do the girls do to Mary Warren?

pretend her spirit is coming to get them

How does Danforth check Proctor's claim of adultery?

brings in Elizabeth to ask why she fired Abigail

Giles Corey is arrested because he refuses to

name the person who accused Putnam of stealing land

What does Proctor end up confessing about himself?

he had an affair with Abigail

WHICH ACT: Abigail steals from Reverend Parris' lockbox

4

John Proctor forgets one of his Ten Commandments

2

Tituba confesses to witchcraft

1

Mary Warren claims John Proctor has sent his spirit on her



3

Reverend Hale leaves Salem

3

PROCTOR SAID THIS IN WHICH ACT: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!...How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"

4

PROCTOR SAID THIS IN WHICH ACT?: "Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I'll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby."

1

PROCTOR SAID THIS IN WHICH ACT?: "No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed."

2

PROCTOR SAID THIS IN WHICH ACT?: "I have known her, sir. I have known her...I beg you, sir, I beg you--see her what she is."

3

PROCTOR SAID THIS IN WHICH ACT?: "A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face!"

3

WHO...Was crushed by rocks?

GIles Corey

WHO...Came to the Proctor home at night?

Reverend Hale

WHO...Did Reverend Hale know before he came to Salem?

Rebecca Nurse

WHO...Issued a warrant and arrested Elizabeth Proctor?

Cheever

WHO...Tried to have his brother-in-law elected mister of Salem, disputes land with John Proctor, and is accused of using the accusations of witchcraft to "reach out for more land."

Thomas Putnam

THIS BEST DESCRIBES WHOM?Has no sense of self-guiding principals and is willing to ruin everyone for personal gain

Abigail or Reverend Parris

THIS BEST DESCRIBES WHOM?Begins as a rugged, independent, and somewhat selfish individual who is a strong, detached from society, but grows into renewed love and respect.

John Proctor

THIS BEST DESCRIBES WHOM? Begins with complete certainty in the court system and his ability to uncover truth, but learns to question both.

Reverend Hale

THIS BEST DESCRIBES WHOM?Common sense/nurturer/honest-integrity; Proctor sees in her a self-dignity and sense of charity that he inspires to have

Rebecca Nurse

THIS BEST DESCRIBES WHOM?Does as he is told. Follows orders no matter what they are do to a sense of responsibility. Acts as 'the good Nazi.'

Cheever

Where does The Crucible take place (town and state)?

Salem, Massachusetts

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

likes the power and status it gives her

What does Parris say he found lodged in his door?

A small dagger

Why are Danforth and Hathorne so intent on getting John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse to confess?
Their confessions might encourage others imprisoned people to confess and prove they were right all along
Mrs. Putnam is jealous of Rebecca Nurse because...
all of Rebecca Nurse's children are healthy
WHO SAID IT? ACT 4 "He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his indictment; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely..."
Elizabeth Proctor
WHO SAID IT? ACT 4 you mistake me. I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie. You have most certainly seen some person with the Devil."
Judge Danforth
WHO SAID IT? ACT 4 "Excellency, if you postpone a week and publish to the town that you are striving for their confessions, that speak mercy on your part, not faltering."
Reverend Hale
WHO SAID IT? ACT 4 " I tell you what is said here, sir. Andover have thrown out the court, they say, and will have no part of witchcraft."
Reverend Parris
WHO SAID IT? ACT 4 "Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own."
Reverend Hale

WHO SAID IT?"But if she say she is pregnant, then she must be! That woman will never lie..."

John Proctor
WHO SAID IT? "He's come to overthrow this court , Your Honor!"
Reverend Parris
WHO SAID IT? "If I must answer that, I will leave and I will not come back again!"
Abigail Williams
WHO SAID IT? "Is it possible child, that the spirits you have seen are illusion only..."
Judge Danforth
WHO SAID IT? "My name, he want my name. 'I'll murder you,' he says, 'if my wife hangs! We must go and overthrow the court,' he says!
Mary Warren

WHO SAID IT "Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in the fortress may be accounted small.

Reverend Hale
WHO SAID IT "Oh, the noose, the noose is up!"
Elizabeth Proctor
WHO SAID IT "It is a mouse no more. I forbid her go, and she raises up her chin like the daughter of a prince and says to me, 'I must go to Salem, I am an official of the court'"
Elizabeth Proctor
WHO SAID IT "I cannot think the Devil may own a woman's soul, Mr. Hale, when she keeps an upright way, as I have. I am a good woman, I know it..."
Elizabeth Proctor
WHO SAID IT "You surely do not fly against the Gospel, the Gospel--"
Reverend Hale

WHO SAID IT"There be no unnatural cause here. Tell him I have sent for Reverend Hale of Beverley, and Mr. Hale will surely confirm it."

Reverend Parris

WHO SAID IT "It's she put me out; you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!"

Abigail
WHO SAID IT "It's strange how I knew you, but I suppose you look as such a good soul should. We have all heard of your great charities in Beverly.
Reverend Hale
WHO SAID IT "Oh, how many times he bid me kill you, Mr. Parris!"
Tituba
WHO SAID IT "I have always wanted to ask a learned man--what signifies the readin' of strange books? I have waked at night many a time and found (my wife) in a corner, readin' of a book."
Giles Corey

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONNearing forty, a tight-skinned eager-eyed intellectual. This is a beloved errand for him; on being called to ascertain witchcraft he felt the pride of the specialist whose unique knowledge has at last been publicly called for

Reverend Hale
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Parris' niece, seventeen, a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling
Abigail Williams
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Breathless, seventeen, subservient, naive, lonely girl
Mary Warren
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION Middle forties. In his history he cut a villainous path. He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side
Reverend Parris
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION A man with many grievances. The eldest son of the richest man in the village. He is deeply embittered for several reasons. One being his brother was not voted Minister of Salem. Another is he attempted to break his father's will but a disproportionate amount was left to his step-brother.
Thomas Putnam