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The Crucible

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who is brought into Salem to help discover the witches?

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

John Proctor

c)

Judge Danforth

d)

Tituba

2.

Why did John stop going to church?

a)

Parris talks too much

b)

Parris was practicing witchcraft

c)

Parris is too greedy

d)

John has to work on his farm

3.

What were the girls actually doing in the forest?

a)

Witchcraft

b)

Practicing spells

c)

Reading the bible

d)

Dancing

4.

What is a crucible?

a)

a spell

b)

intense suspicion

c)

a trial

d)

a religion

5.

Who does Goody Putnam blame for the death of her children?

a)

Tituba

b)

Goody Nurse

c)

Measles

d)

Abigail

6.

What is the climax of the play?

a)

Elizabeth lying in trial

b)

John Proctor being accused of being with the devil

c)

John refusing to confess

d)

Abigail turning on the girls

7.

What is the exposition?

a)

Salem, Massachusetts 1600s

b)

New York, New York 1911

c)

Kaskaskia, Illinois 1818

d)

Plymouth Rock, Virginia, 1776

8.

What is an allegory?

a)

Symbolic representation of a larger story

b)

Repeated consonant sounds

c)

A long story

d)

This one is the wrong answer.

9.

What is the Crucible an allegory for?

a)

The Salem Witch Trials

b)

The American Revolution

c)

The Red Scare

d)

The Civil Rights Movement

10.

What is the main conflict in the play?

a)

Man vs. Wild

b)

Man vs. Man

c)

Man vs. Self

d)

Man vs. Society

11.

What is the falling action?

a)

Mary Warren accusing Proctor

b)

Mary Warren giving Elizabeth the doll

c)

Abigail confessing to witchcraft

d)

Abigail running away to Barbados

12.

What is the inciting incident?

a)

Proctor ripping up his confession

b)

Tituba admitting to teaching the girls witchcraft

c)

Parris finding the girls in the forest

d)

Abigail talking with John privately

13.

How are Parris and Abigail related?

a)

Husband and wife

b)

Uncle and niece

c)

Father and daughter

d)

Brother and sister

14.

Why didn't Betty wake up?

a)

She took fright and fainted

b)

She was in a coma

c)

She was under a spell

d)

She had the measles

15.

What character said "[...] and still an everlasting funeral marches 'round your heart."

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

Abigail

d)

John Proctor

16.

Which of these characters is NOT accused of witchcraft?

a)

Abigail

b)

Proctor

c)

Giles

d)

Martha Corey

17.

Why doesn't Giles give up the name of who accused Putnam?

a)

He wants to end the accusations and hysteria

b)

He is stubborn

c)

He is lying

d)

He was the one who accused Putnam

18.

What are the two major motifs?

a)

Heat

b)

Hysteria

c)

Witchcraft

d)

Crying

19.

Why do so many confess to witchery?

a)

They are actually witches

b)

They are afraid to die

c)

They know it's not a big deal

d)

They hope others will confess

20.

What is the False Dilemma fallacy?

a)

When reasoning goes in a circle

b)

The idea that if everyone is doing something, it must be correct

c)

If there is no evidence against it, it must be true

d)

Limiting options to two opposing positions