WorksheetsThe Crucible
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Who said: "I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint. It is a fraud...I am not that man."
Danforth
Abigail
Reverend Hale
John Proctor
Reverend Parris
How many had people had already been hanged when Danforth refused to postpone the hangings of John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, etc.?
25
12
100
4
Who considered life to be God's most precious gift?
Reverend Hale
Rebecca Nurse
Martha Corey
Reverend Parris
Who had 3 children and wished to do the right thing, by not "selling his friends" in order to teach them to "walk like men in the world"
Jon Proctor
Reverend Hale
Thomas Putnam
Giles Corey
Who said: "I have been near to murdered every day because I done my duty pointing out the Devil’s people—& this is my reward? To be mistrusted, denied…"
Abigail Williams
Mary Warren
Betty Parris
Ann Putnam
What does "lecher" mean?
Adulterer
Liar
Leech
Who was being questioned for lechery?
Reverend Hale
John Proctor
Giles Corey
Thomas Putnam
Who was the judge who was responsible for the hangings and questioning Elizabeth Proctor?
Reverend Hale
Reverend Parris
Danforth
Who came to pray with the prisoners?
Reverend Parris
Giles Corey
Reverend Hale
Ann Putnam
Abigail
Who constantly felt attacked in Salem? Specifically, by John Proctor
Thomas Putnam
Giles Corey
Reverend Parris
Who initially lied about dancing naked in the woods?
Betty Parris
Abigail Williams
Tituba
Mercy Lewis
Who came upon the girls dancing and drinking chicken's blood prior to the play's start?
Reverend Parris
Thomas Putnam
Giles Corey
Reverend Hale
Who DIDN'T make a great change by the end of the play?
John Proctor
Elizabeth Proctor
Reverend Parris
Reverend Hale
Elizabeth Proctor was arrested for witchcraft due to livestock dying.
True
False
What was Elizabeth Proctor arrested for?
Having a poppet
Accusing Abigail Williams of witchcraft
Accusing all young girls of witchcraft
Accusing her husband of cheating
Who was responsible for the poppet and Abigail being stabbed in the stomach with a needle?
Mary Warren
Mercy Lewis
Abigail Williams
Betty Parris
Who made the poppet (innocently)?
Mercy Lewis
Betty Parris
Tituba
Ann Putnam
Mary Warren
What did Abigail Williams pretend to see during the trials?
A poppet
A black bird
A yellow bird
The devil
Who is "responsible," or accused, of cursing livestock?
Martha Corey
Ann Putnam
Betty Parris
Abigail Williams
Who was pressed to death?
Giles Corey
Thomas Putnam
John Proctor
Andy Bernard
Who is pregnant?
Sarah Good
Martha Corey
Abigail Williams
Mary Warren
Sarah Good
How far along in her pregnancy was Elizabeth when she and John reunited?
6 months
3 months
8 months
She was never pregnant; she lied to save her own life
This person was considered an expert in determining signs of witchcraft by examination.
Reverend Parris
Giles Corey
Thomas Putnam
Reverend Hale
Martha Corey's fate was determined by the livestock curse.
True
False
Giles Corey was concerned about Martha Corey:
Reading books
Reading books at night in the corner of their room
Singing and dancing
Not being able to recite the commandments, and the stoppage of prayer
Rebecca Nurse lost all of her children.
True
False
Rebecca Nurse was a midwife.
True
False
Who was the first person accused of witchcraft?
Tituba
Betty Parris
Abigail Williams
Mercy Lewis
Who conjures the dead before the play starts?
Abigail Williams
Tituba
Betty Parris
Mary Warren
Who is technically responsible for the conjuring of the dead?
Ann Putnam
Abigail Williams
Betty Parris
Reverend Parris
How many children did Thomas and Ann Putnam have?
14
4
7
8
Who is Thomas and Ann Putnam's daughter's name?
Ruth
Mary
Betty
Mercy
Who accuses John during the trials?
Reverend Parris
Elizabeth Proctor
Mary Warren
Ruth
Why is John accused?
Out of fear/to save him/herself (the person who accused)
Because he cheated
Because he is hated
Because he didn't go to church
The only reason the girls blamed other for witchcraft was because they were stupid, bratty girls
True
False
John refuses to go to court at first because of who?
Elizabeth
Abigail
Mary Warren
Reverend Parris
John eventually, finally, goes to court in order to do what?
Save Abigail's life
Save Mary Warren's life
To save his own life
To save Elizabeth's, his wife's, life
Reverend Parris tried to convince John Proctor to confess because:
He was afraid he was going to be accused next
He hated him, and didn't want him alive or around anymore
He really and truly thought that John was guilty
For fun; they were all bored in Salem!
John Proctor didn't go to church because:
He was sick
Elizabeth was sick
He disliked Parris
He was a devil-worshiper and had compacted with him.
The only way to get out of a witchcraft accusation was:
To confess
To accuse someone else
To pretend that you are bewitched by someone else
John brings Mary Warren to the trials to:
Save her
Save himself
Save his wife, Elizabeth
To accuse her
