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The Crucible / The Dressmaker: Themes and Ideas

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“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?

a)

guilt

b)

insular communities

c)

love

d)

power

2.

“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?

a)

gender roles

b)

judgement

c)

insular communities

d)

revenge

3.

“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)

4.

Which characters are dead at the end of the texts?

a)

Giles Corey

b)

Abigail

c)

Molly

d)

Mae McSwiney

5.

REBECCA: let you fear nothing! Another ______________ awaits us all (The Crucible)

a)

judge

b)

judgement

c)

court

d)

Danforce

6.

“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?

a)

truth and deception

b)

blame and fear

c)

guilt and sin

d)

love and forgiveness

7.

“we burn a hot fire here; (a)   ”

8.

"he cut a villainous path, and there is very little good to be said for him" (The Crucible)

a)

Parris

b)

Putnam

c)

Danforth

d)

Pettyman

9.

“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?

a)

toxic and vengeful communities

b)

insular communities

c)

hypocrisy

d)

blame and guilt

10.

“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?

a)

Rebecca Nurse

b)

Giles Corey

c)

Tilly Dunnage

d)

Septimus Crescent

11.

"“He is a sinner, a sinner not only against the moral fashion of the time, but against his (a)   ”

12.

“she is frightened as trouble in this house _____________________”

a)

is aimed at her

b)

finds her

c)

is in the forest

d)

eventually lands on her back

13.

“Pain will no longer be our curse, Molly’, she said, ‘It will be our revenge and our reason. I have made it my (a)   "

14.

The story of The Crucible begins in:

a)

1692

b)

1693

c)

1694

d)

1695

15.

Spell the name of the state where The Crucible is set?

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Massechusess

c)

Massechusets

d)

Massechusetts

16.

", 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)   ”

17.

" “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)   "

18.

DANFORTH: Mr Parris you are a (a)  

19.

“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?

a)

conflict and disunity

b)

blame and guilt

c)

love and forgiveness

d)

truth and deception

20.

“__________________ in Massechusetts was broken”

a)

Religion

b)

The power of religion

c)

Theocracy

d)

The power of theocracy

21.

"I say you _____ Devil you _______ "

a)

lie

b)

cry

c)

die

d)

handsome