The Crucible Context Knowledge Check

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Salem Witch Trials

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1692

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Vilify: speak/write abusively

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Disparaging manner

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Origin of 'ostracise'

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Legal method in ancient Athens: banishment for 10 years by public vote.

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Country with most witch killings (1300-1850)

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Germany

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Young girls obsessed with the occult

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Orphans

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Salem's witch hunt factors

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Isolated community, fear, battles with natives

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Salem community's imports from Europe

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Ideas about witchcraft and village life structures causing conflict

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House of Rebecca Nurse

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Historical figure in the play

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Salem's moral code

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punishing

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First to diagnose girls' fits as Satanic possession

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Samuel Parris