WorksheetsThe Crucible / The Dressmaker: Themes and Ideas
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 12mins
“He has lifted her, and kisses her now with great passion” (The Crucible)
“it’s amazing what a little bit of nourishment will do” (The Dressmaker)
Which theme best fits these quotations?
guilt
insular communities
love
power
“It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery" (The Crucible)
“You know perfectly well girls who wear dresses like that don’t warrant honourable intentions” (The Dressmaker)
Which theme best fits these quotations?
gender roles
judgement
insular communities
revenge
“the people bobbed together like (a) pecking at vegetable scraps, turning occasionally to glance up at the house on The Hill, before turning hurriedly away” (The Dressmaker)
Which characters are dead at the end of the texts?
Giles Corey
Abigail
Molly
Mae McSwiney
REBECCA: let you fear nothing! Another ______________ awaits us all (The Crucible)
judge
judgement
court
Danforce
“She wore, as ever, a navy linen day dress and her fox fur…bald patches on the mottled, thinning pelt” (The Dressmaker)
Which themes best fit this quotation?
truth and deception
blame and fear
guilt and sin
love and forgiveness
“we burn a hot fire here; (a) ”
"he cut a villainous path, and there is very little good to be said for him" (The Crucible)
Parris
Putnam
Danforth
Pettyman
“A barbaric frontier inhabited by a sect of fanatics” (The Crucible)
“They’re all liars, sinners and hypocrites” (The Dressmaker)
Which theme best suits these quotations?
toxic and vengeful communities
insular communities
hypocrisy
blame and guilt
“In this town, a man can covet his neighbour’s wife and not get hurt but to speak the truth can earn a bleeding nose”
Who said this?
Rebecca Nurse
Giles Corey
Tilly Dunnage
Septimus Crescent
"“He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his (a) ”
“she is frightened as trouble in this house _____________________”
is aimed at her
finds her
is in the forest
eventually lands on her back
“Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly’, she said, ‘It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my (a) "
The story of The Crucible begins in:
1692
1693
1694
1695
Spell the name of the state where The Crucible is set?
Massachusetts
Massechusess
Massechusets
Massechusetts
", he, like the rest of Salem, never conceived that the children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and (a) ”
" “He was Dungatar’s highly valued full forward, he was charming and nice girls loved him, but he was a McSwiney. Beula Harridene said he was just a (a) "
DANFORTH: Mr Parris you are a (a)
“This will set us arguing again in the society and we though to have peace this year. I think we ought to rely on the doctor now and good prayer” (The Crucible)
Which theme best suits this quotation?
conflict and disunity
blame and guilt
love and forgiveness
truth and deception
“__________________ in Massechusetts was broken”
Religion
The power of religion
Theocracy
The power of theocracy
"I say you _____ Devil you _______ "
lie
cry
die
handsome
