WorksheetsCrucible - Act One Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Crucible is...
a short story
a novel
a drama
The author of The Crucible is...
Arthur Mueller
Author Milner
Arthur Miller
On the surface, the play is about the Salem Witch Trials, but it is also a metaphor for...
Senator McCarthy's witch burnings
Senator McCarthy's Communist Hearings
Senator McCarthy's conspiracy
McCarthyism is... (pick 2)
an intense investigation of supposed communists in the US government
making unfair allegations to persecute political opponents
the practice of using magic to communicate with the dead
. . . is a story about ONE thing, but that is also a metaphor for ANOTHER thing that the author wants to talk about indirectly.
innuendo
allegory
archetype
The play takes place in the year _____.
1492
1595
1692
The play takes place in the village of _____.
Boston
Salem
Beverly
The people of the village are _____.
Amish
Quakers
Puritans
At the beginning of Act One, Parris is concerned that Betty _____.
is unconscious
ran away
is flying around the room
Parris is the _____ of the village.
mayor
minister
blacksmith
What is Abigail’s relationship with Rev. Parris? She is his _____.
niece
daughter
servant
Why is Parris upset with Abigail at the very beginning?
She sacrificed a goat
She quit her job
She was dancing in the woods with Betty
What most upsets Parris about Abigail’s recent activities and Betty’s condition?
That people will run the girls out of town, and he will never see them again
That townspeople will become suspicious of him, and his reputation will be ruined
That he will have to call a doctor to cure Betty, and he can’t afford one on his salary
Describe Abigail’s relationship to John Proctor and his wife.
She used to be their servant
She is their slave
She is Goody Proctor’s sister
Something that upsets Abigail is when Betty says that she saw Abigail _____.
naked
dance with the devil
drink blood
Abigail drank a charm to kill _____.
John Proctor
Goody Proctor, John’s wife
Rebecca Nurse
Who has Parris called in from Beverly to see if there is evidence of witchcraft in the village?
Matthew Hopkins
Reverend Hale
Judge Hathorne
What do Parris, Proctor, Putnam, and Giles all argue over in the middle of Act One?
the affair
dancing
firewood / lumber
She is one of the oldest and most respected women is Salem, and argues that the girls will wake up when they tire of games.
Abigail
Rebecca Nurse
Mrs. Putnam
At the end of Act One, Abigail and Betty begin to ecstatically cry out that they saw _____.
various villagers, including Goody Good and Goody Osburn, with the Devil
John Proctor sweating like a stallion with a girl behind his house
Giles Corey burn the roof off Proctor’s barn
