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The Crucible

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 33mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who had seven children die on the same day they were born?

a)

Rebecca Nurse

b)

Ann Putnam

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Sarah Osburn

2.

According to Abigail, who has turned her spirit into a bird?

a)

Elizabeth Proctor

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Goody Osburn

d)

Mary Warren

3.

Who goes to court to say that she lied about seeing spirits?

a)

Mary Warren

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Ruth Putnam

d)

Betty Parris

4.

Who is in his seventies and has slowly gained land and prominence in the community?

a)

Thomas Putnam

b)

Reverend Parris

c)

Francis Nurse

d)

John Proctor

5.

Who questions Elizabeth Proctor in court to see why she dismissed Abigail Williams from her house?

a)

Judge Hathorne

b)

Reverend Parris

c)

Deputy Governor Danforth

d)

Giles Corey

6.

Who danced naked in the woods the night Reverend Parris caught the girls?

a)

Abigail Williams

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Susanna Walcott

d)

Mary Warren

7.

Who works in the Parris home and came with them from Barbados?

a)

Tituba

b)

Betty Parris

c)

Mary Warren

d)

Abigail Williams

8.

Who reminds Mary Warren what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias?

a)

Judge Hathorne

b)

Francis Nurse

c)

Giles Corey

d)

John Proctor

9.

Who is a witchcraft expert from Beverly?

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

Judge Hathorne

c)

Reverend Parris

d)

Deputy Governor Danforth

10.

Who is sent by the court to the Proctor house to question Elizabeth about having a poppet?

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

Giles Corey

c)

Mary Warren

d)

Ezekiel Cheever

11.

Who tells the court that she is pregnant?

a)

Abigail Williams

b)

Mary Warren

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Rebecca Nurse

12.

Who has twice been put out of the meeting house for laughing during prayer?

a)

Susanna Walcott

b)

Abigail Williams

c)

Tituba

d)

Mercy Lewis

13.

Who tells Reverend Parris that Betty will wake when she's tired of this mischief?

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

Ann Putnam

c)

Rebecca Nurse

d)

Abigail Williams

14.

When asked by Reverend Hale, who can only remember nine of the ten commandments?

a)

Elizabeth Proctor

b)

John Proctor

c)

Giles Corey

d)

Goody Osburn

15.

Who saw Tituba with the girls dancing in the woods?

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

John Proctor

c)

Thomas Putnam

d)

Reverend Hale

16.

Who arrives weighed down by half a dozen heavy books that are full of authority on the supernatural world?

a)

Martha Corey

b)

Reverend Parris

c)

Deputy Governor Danforth

d)

Reverend Hale

17.

Who mentions that his wife has a habit of reading books?

a)

John Proctor

b)

Giles Corey

c)

Thomas Putnam

d)

Francis Nurse

18.

Who goes to the woods to talk to the spirits of her dead siblings?

a)

Ruth Putnam

b)

Betty Parris

c)

Susanna Walcott

d)

Mercy Lewis

19.

Who is hoping to buy George Jacob's farm once he's been hanged?

a)

Giles Corey

b)

John Proctor

c)

Thomas Putnam

d)

Francis Nurse

20.

Who tries to fly to her mother while in a trance?

a)

Susanna Walcott

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Mary Warren

d)

Betty Parris

21.

Who is upset because he has not received firewood?

a)

Reverend Parris

b)

John Proctor

c)

Giles Corey

d)

Deputy Governor Danforth

22.

Who has eleven children and twenty-six grandchildren?

a)

Martha Corey

b)

Rebecca Nurse

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Ann Putnam

23.

Who drank blood as a charm to kill John Proctor's wife?

a)

Mary Warren

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Susanna Walcott

d)

Abigail Williams

24.

Who saw her parents die when Indians smashed their heads on the pillow next to her?

a)

Mercy Lewis

b)

Elizabeth Proctor

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Mary Warren

25.

Who cooks a rabbit stew for her husband?

a)

Rebecca Nurse

b)

Elizabeth Proctor

c)

Martha Corey

d)

Ann Putnam

26.

Who makes a poppet and sticks a needle under its skirt?

a)

Mary Warren

b)

Elizabeth Proctor

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Mercy Lewis

27.

Who mumbles as she is turned away from the Proctor house when begging?

a)

Rebecca Nurse

b)

Mercy Lewis

c)

Tituba

d)

Goody Osburn

28.

Who is a graduate of Harvard College and declares that he is no preaching farmer?

a)

John Proctor

b)

Thomas Putnam

c)

Reverend Parris

d)

Judge Hathorne

29.

Who says, "More weight!" as he is pressed to death?

a)

Giles Corey

b)

John Proctor

c)

Francis Nurse

d)

Reverend Hale

30.

Who is "a bitter, remorseless Salem judge" in his sixties?

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

Francis Nurse

c)

Judge Hathorne

d)

Reverend Parris

31.

Who said this?

“I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!”

a)

John Proctor

b)

Elizabeth Proctor

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Mary Warren

32.

Who said this?

“This is a hearing. You cannot arrest me for contempt of a hearing.”

a)

Giles Corey

b)

John Proctor

c)

Reverend Hale

d)

Mary Warren

33.

Who said this?

“And mark this. Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!"

a)

Mercy Lewis

b)

Ruth Putnam

c)

Mary Warren

d)

Abigail Williams

34.

Who said this?

"Abigail I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child, I have put clothes upon your back- now give me an upright answer. Your name in the town- it is entirely white, is it not?”

a)

Deputy Governor Danforth

b)

Reverend Parris

c)

Giles Corey

d)

Reverend Hale

35.

Who said this?

" Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victim- and they do testify, the children certainly do testify."

a)

Mary Warren

b)

Giles Corey

c)

John Proctor

d)

Deputy Governor Danforth

36.

Who said this?

“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!”

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

Elizabeth Proctor

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Rebecca Nurse

37.

Who said this?

"I think she'll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back."

a)

Rebecca Nurse

b)

Ann Putnam

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Reverend Parris

38.

Who said this?

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”

a)

Giles Corey

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

John Proctor

d)

Reverend Parris

39.

Who said this?

I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!

a)

Abigail Williams

b)

Mary Warren

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Goody Osburn

40.

Who said this?

"No, no. Now let me instruct you. We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone, and I must tell you all that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise of Hell upon her."

a)

John Proctor

b)

Tituba

c)

Reverend Hale

d)

Abigail Williams

41.

Who said this?

“A man may think God sleeps, but God sees everything, I know it now. I beg you, sir, I beg you—see her what she is. . . She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave! And well she might, for I thought of her softly. God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore’s vengeance.”

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

Giles Corey

c)

Reverend Parris

d)

John Proctor

42.

Who said this?

“Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up.”

a)

Francis Nurse

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

Giles Corey

d)

Thomas Putnam

43.

Who said this?

“He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him ‘No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want to kill that man.’”

a)

Ann Putnam

b)

Goody Osburn

c)

Abigail Williams

d)

Tituba

44.

Who said this?

“No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you're not, you're not, and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not."

a)

Reverend Hale

b)

John Proctor

c)

Giles Corey

d)

Deputy Governor Danforth

45.

Who said this?

“So many time, Mr. Proctor, she come to this very door, beggin’ bread and a cup of cider – and mark this: whenever I turned her away empty, she mumbled.”

a)

Elizabeth Proctor

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

Mary Warren

d)

Judge Hathorne

46.

Who said this?

"Adultery, John."

a)

Elizabeth Proctor

b)

Ruth Putnam

c)

Rebecca Nurse

d)

Giles Corey

47.

Who said this?

"But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted? Therefore, we must rely upon her victim- and they do testify, the children certainly do testify."

a)

Abigail Williams

b)

John Proctor

c)

Reverend Hale

d)

Deputy Governor Danforth

48.

What type of government does Salem have during this time?

a)

democracy

b)

theocracy

c)

monarchy

d)

utopia

49.

Who is the first person that Abigail accuses of practicing witchcraft?

a)

Mary Warren

b)

Tituba

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Rebecca Nurse

50.

Why was Abigail dismissed by Elizabeth Proctor?

a)

Abigail was too proud.

b)

Abigail’s work didn’t please her.

c)

Abigail dressed like a prostitute.

d)

Abigail was having an affair with her husband.

51.

Which of the following is NOT a complaint that John Proctor makes against Reverend Parris?

a)

He constantly complains of repairs needed to the parsonage.

b)

He preaches too much "fire and brimstone."

c)

He does not speak of God enough.

d)

He wanted gold candlesticks for the altar.

52.

What does Ann Putnam attribute to witchcraft?

a)

Her husband's poor health

b)

Her seven children dying in infancy

c)

Her cow dying

d)

Her inability to keep a pig alive

53.

Who do Ezekiel Cheever and Marshall Herrick come to the Proctor home to arrest?

a)

John Proctor

b)

Reverend Hale

c)

Elizabeth Proctor

d)

Mary Warren

54.

What does John Proctor convince Mary Warren to testify?

a)

The girls are only pretending to be possessed.

b)

Abigail seduced him in the barn.

c)

Abigail is a witch.

d)

She was the one that was naked.

55.

What do Abigail and the other girls do when Mary Warren testifies against them?

a)

They threaten to kill her.

b)

They repeat everything she says.

c)

They faint.

d)

They all confess to lying.

56.

What does Elizabeth Proctor do when she is called upon to testify to the court about John’s infidelity?

a)

She confirms the truth.

b)

She curses Abigail.

c)

She lies to protect him.

d)

She refuses to answer.

57.

Why are cows wandering loose on the roads and crops rotting in the fields?

a)

Citizens have started raiding each other’s barns.

b)

There is no one to care for them because so many are jailed.

c)

The livestock are now also possessed by witches.

d)

Parris and Danforth have confiscated all livestock.

58.

Which of the following is NOT a reason why Danforth refuses to postpone the hangings?

a)

It will make him look like a fool.

b)

It will make him look weak.

c)

It will look like he has wrongly convicted people.

d)

It will only encourage more witchcraft.

59.

Why does Proctor retract his initial confession?

a)

New evidence has come to light that clears him.

b)

Reverend Hale asks him to retract it.

c)

His signed confession is to be posted on the church door.

d)

Abigail confesses, which clears his name.

60.

What is Abigail's fate the end of the play?

a)

She is hanged for lying to the court.

b)

She kills herself.

c)

She is publicly condemned for her affair with John Proctor.

d)

She flees to Salem after robbing her uncle.