The Crucible Act IV

What lesson did Elizabeth Proctor learn during her three-month imprisonment?

• One should not judge human frailty too harshly.

• All people carry the seeds of evil within themselves.

• There are no meaningful standards of right and wrong.

• Human beings cannot be held responsible for their actions.

Personal honor determines one’s self-worth is reflected when...

• When John yells, "I want my life."

• When John is asked if he knows anyone else who has compacted with the devil.

• When John Proctor’s tear up the confession.

• Convincing the judge that he was being honest.

When John said, "I want my life!" what does he mean?

• He is afraid to die.

• He wants to go home.

• He wants his unborn baby to be healthy so he wants to take the place of his wife Elizabeth.

• He is going to confess so he can go home and be with his family.

A gibbet is defined as a(n)...

• debate or Argument.

• remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

• gallows

• Unwilling or unable to believe something.

What word is defined as: (of a person) with the mouth wide open, especially showing surprise or shock.

• Beguile

• Agape

• Prodigious

• Sibilance

Unwilling or unable to believe something defines

• Incredulous

• Prodigious

• Disputation

• Beguile

Realism is a story that can be interpreted on both a literal and a symbolic level.

• True

• False

Act I, line 273: “There is either

obedience or the church will burn

like Hell is burning.” is an example of

• Realism

• Allegory

• Literary Meaning

• Biblical Allusions

A symbolic meaning

• Takes the story at its face value.

• Invented for the purposes of fiction.

• Uses the same characters and story events as stand-ins to tell a second, usually more abstract and elemental story.

• References to people, situations, and text from the Bible

Sibilance is defined as

• Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

• The action of harming someone because they have harmed oneself; revenge.

• Unwilling or unable to believe something.

• A hissing quality of sound, or the hissing sound itself.