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WorksheetsThe Crucible
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Who is brought into Salem to help discover the witches?
Reverend Hale
John Proctor
Judge Danforth
Tituba
Why did John stop going to church?
Parris talks too much
Parris was practicing witchcraft
Parris is too greedy
John has to work on his farm
What were the girls actually doing in the forest?
Witchcraft
Practicing spells
Reading the bible
Dancing
What is a crucible?
a spell
intense suspicion
a trial
a religion
Who does Goody Putnam blame for the death of her children?
Tituba
Goody Nurse
Measles
Abigail
What is the climax of the play?
Elizabeth lying in trial
John Proctor being accused of being with the devil
John refusing to confess
Abigail turning on the girls
What is the exposition?
Salem, Massachusetts 1600s
New York, New York 1911
Kaskaskia, Illinois 1818
Plymouth Rock, Virginia, 1776
What is an allegory?
Symbolic representation of a larger story
Repeated consonant sounds
A long story
This one is the wrong answer.
What is the Crucible an allegory for?
The Salem Witch Trials
The American Revolution
The Red Scare
The Civil Rights Movement
What is the main conflict in the play?
Man vs. Wild
Man vs. Man
Man vs. Self
Man vs. Society
What is the falling action?
Mary Warren accusing Proctor
Mary Warren giving Elizabeth the doll
Abigail confessing to witchcraft
Abigail running away to Barbados
What is the inciting incident?
Proctor ripping up his confession
Tituba admitting to teaching the girls witchcraft
Parris finding the girls in the forest
Abigail talking with John privately
How are Parris and Abigail related?
Husband and wife
Uncle and niece
Father and daughter
Brother and sister
Why didn't Betty wake up?
She took fright and fainted
She was in a coma
She was under a spell
She had the measles
What character said "[...] and still an everlasting funeral marches 'round your heart."
Reverend Parris
Reverend Hale
Abigail
John Proctor
Which of these characters is NOT accused of witchcraft?
Abigail
Proctor
Giles
Martha Corey
Why doesn't Giles give up the name of who accused Putnam?
He wants to end the accusations and hysteria
He is stubborn
He is lying
He was the one who accused Putnam
What are the two major motifs?
Heat
Hysteria
Witchcraft
Crying
Why do so many confess to witchery?
They are actually witches
They are afraid to die
They know it's not a big deal
They hope others will confess
What is the False Dilemma fallacy?
When reasoning goes in a circle
The idea that if everyone is doing something, it must be correct
If there is no evidence against it, it must be true
Limiting options to two opposing positions
