The Crucible Act 2+3 Quotes

"Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers... We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom." Who is the speaker?

• Hale

• Putnam

• Danforth

• Proctor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I-- I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed to believe them, and I-- It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits, and I-- I promise you, Mr. Danforth, I only thought I saw them but I did not." Who is the speaker?

• Abigail

• Elizabeth

• Mary

• Mercy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I cannot think God be provoked so grandly by such a cause. The jails are packed--our greatest judges sit in Salem now-- and hangin's promised... I shall pray God open up our eyes." Who is the speaker?

• Hale

• Putnam

• Parris

• Proctor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I say-- I say--God is dead! Who is the speaker?

• Abigail

• Parris

• Proctor

• Mary

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!" Who is the speaker?

• Hale

• Putnam

• Parris

• Proctor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s charitable injunctions." Paraphrase this quote.

• Small town people can finally destroy their hated neighbors despite the bible saying that you should love your neighbors.

• Despite the bible saying so, people should take vengeance whenever given the chance.

• The bible states that hating one's neighbor is morally wrong.

• The Bible's commandments forbids revenge.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are

of Lucifer... A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."

What does this mean?

• It's important to search for evil in our country.

• Our nation is so divided that good and evil has been defined by the government, but morality is much more complicated than that.

• Senator McCarthy is hunting down Communists even though political policy does not allow him to.

• If you are on the left side of the political spectrum, then naturally you must have been against American ideals.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"It’s winter in here yet." What does John mean when he tells Elizabeth this?

• Winter is coming, the white walkers are almost here!

• It's cold outside.

• She is being emotionally cruel to him.

• There are no flowers around the house!

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3