Worksheets"The Crucible" - Act 1
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
The Puritans came to this country for religious freedom; however, when they got here they persecuted others as they had been persecuted. They turned their colony into a place almost as bad as the place they had left.
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Being under such strict laws and commandments, the Puritans had to repress a lot of their anger and spirit of revenge towards their neighbors. When the witch hunts started, it was an excellent opportunity for them to "let their hair down" and get revenge on their neighbors for whatever petty squabbles they had been having.
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Tituba was Proctor's slave woman from Barbados. She went with the girls into the forest and was accused of conjuring spirits, accused of being a witch.
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Abigail was Parris' daughter. She wanted to take Rebecca's place as John Proctor's wife.
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Betty was Parris' daughter. In the opening scene, she has had some sort of a fit, and the only explanation the people of Salem can find for her condition is the presence of witchcraft in their village.
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Mrs. Putnam believed witches put spells on her babies and killed them.
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Thomas Putnam was a greedy, frustrated, bitter man.
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Parris was well-liked and in complete control of his congregation.
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Mary wants Abby to tell the truth about the happenings in the woods.
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Proctor is a weak man, ill-tempered and full of malice.
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John Proctor and Abigail had an affair.
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One sign that Betty was bewitched was that she shrieked and flew around the room praising Satan.
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Rebecca Nurse was truly good woman, kind and gentle in her manner. Rebecca helped to deliver some of the Putnams' babies.
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The Nurses were not liked by the Putnams because of some land disputes, and this conflict was somewhat revenged by the Putnams when Ann Putnam accused Rebecca of bewitching her newborn babies (implying she was responsible for their deaths).
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Rebecca cast a spell over Betty.
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Rebecca believed the girls were bewitched.
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Proctor doesn't attend church because he is an atheist.
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Parris wanted the deed to his house, and firewood in addition to his salary as minister (not as a part of it).
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Putnam was a land-grabbing man who would use devious means to get what he wants.
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Rev. John Hale has come to Salem to take Parris's place.
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Tituba confessed that she had conjured spirits and met with the devil and signed his book.
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The girls admitted that they were bewitched, and they started naming the names of people they had seen with the devil.
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