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The Crucible Test Review

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 27mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Her husband had an affair with Abigail Williams.

(a)  

2.

He asked for "more weight" while being pressed to death.

(a)  

3.

He brought suspicion on his wife by mentioning that she secretly read books.

(a)  

4.

His daughter, Betty, fell ill after attempting to conjure spirits.

(a)  

5.

She made the poppet that was later used as evidence against Elizabeth Proctor.

(a)  

6.

She claimed that Mary Warren's spirit, in the shape of a bird, was harassing her.

(a)  

7.

She believed that the deaths of her seven children were caused by witchcraft.

(a)  

8.

He was hanged after tearing up his signed confession.

(a)  

9.

He was the first man summoned from out of town to help deal with the witchcraft problem.

(a)  

10.

She was the orphaned niece of Rev. Parris.

(a)  

11.

She replaced Abigail as the servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor.

(a)  

12.

He was the Deputy Governor.

(a)  

13.

The witchcraft suspicion started in his house.

(a)  

14.

She was over 80 years old, and had an impeccable reputation until being accused of witchcraft.

(a)  

15.

She was a slave from Barbados.

(a)  

16.

Rebecca Nurse confesses to witchcraft.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Elizabeth Proctor hangs for witchcraft.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Giles Corey is a somewhat comical character in the play.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Only women were accused of witchcraft in Salem and Europe

a)

True

b)

False

21.

In the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed there were witches in the U.S. State Department.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

The setting of Act III is a jail cell.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Everyone in Salem was in full support of the witchcraft investigations.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

Mary Warren runs away with Abigail Williams at the end of the play.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

During the course of this play, Tituba is hanged and killed.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

A form of government in which a society is managed by religious officials and the state's legal system is entirely based on religious rule

a)

Monarchy

b)

Theocracy

c)

Democracy

d)

Oligarchy

e)

Autocracy

27.

Which type of irony is the quote below?

Act II

Elizabeth “I do not judge you!” (194)


Elizabeth and John are arguing about whether or not John will go into Salem and announce that Abigail admitted to him that he lied.

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

28.

Which type of irony is the quote below?

Act II

Mary Warren: "I must not accuse this woman, for she sleeps in ditches, and so very old and poor.” (195)


She is explaining to John and Elizabeth what happened in court this day.

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

29.

Which type of irony is described below?

Rev. Hale was convinced that there was “witchcraft” brewing in Salem, even believing that he drove demons from Tituba and the girls.

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

30.

The Crucible is set in _______________________.

a)

England in 1692.

b)

Catholic New England in 1692.

c)

Puritan Canada in 1692.

d)

Puritan New England in 1692.

31.

________ takes place in the bedroom of Betty Parris.

a)

Act I

b)

Act II

c)

Act III

d)

Act IV

32.

________ is set in the “common room” of the Proctors’ house.

a)

Act I

b)

Act II

c)

Act III

d)

Act IV

33.

________ takes place in the vestry of the Salem meetinghouse, which is now the anteroom of the Salem General Court

a)

Act I

b)

Act II

c)

Act III

d)

Act IV

34.

________ is set in a bleak prison cell shortly before sunrise. Moonlight trickles through a barred window. There are two benches and a great, heavy door.

a)

Act I

b)

Act II

c)

Act III

d)

Act IV

35.

Which type of irony is described below?

The girls are motivated by malice, yet the court considers them the “voice of heaven.”

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

36.

Which type of irony is described below?

The Puritans intended theocracy to unify the community, but in Act IV we see much evidence that the witch hunts are tearing Salem apart (cows wander the roads, orphans have no one to care for them, farms in disarray).

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

37.

Which type of irony is described below?

Elizabeth’s lie in Act III

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

38.

Which type of irony is described below?

The characters who receive the most protection from the court are the dishonest (Abigail and the girls), the underhanded (Thomas Putnam), and those who withhold evidence (Parris).

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above

39.

Which type of irony is described below?

Judge Danforth’s assertion that no innocent man need fear his court.

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Situational Irony

c)

Verbal Irony

d)

None of the above