Male Characters
This character came to Salem to determine if there was witchcraft and then left Salem when he saw how corrupt its court was.
Who is Reverend Hale?
This character is the first accussed of witchcraft.
Who is Tituba?
Logically, this is why did the first two, youngest girls probably displayed symptoms of witchcraft in Act 1.
What is afraid of getting into trouble?
This is why the court does not immediately hang Elizabeth Proctor when she refuses to confess to witchcraft.
What is pregnancy?
This is how many paragraphs one should write in an in-class essay, on average.
What is 4 or 5?
This character told his daughter to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft in order to obtain his land.
Who is Mr. Putnam?
This character is Abigail Williams' cousin.
Who is Betty Parris?
While threatening to kill her "friends," Abigail reveals this about her past that could explain her manipulative and aggressive behavior.
What is her parents being killed by Native Americans in front of her as a child?
This is the commandment that John Proctor coincidentally forgets when Reverend Hale asks him to recite them.
What is adultery?
This is the purpose of the thesis statement and where it goes in the essay.
What is presenting the argument/opinion of the essay and the end of the introductory paragraph?
This character's wife was accused of bewitching pigs.
Who is Giles Corey?
This character accused John Proctor of witchcraft.
Who is Mary Warren?
These are three things about the girls that Reverend Parris saw the in the woods in Act 1.
What is dancing, nakedness, and a pot of something?
This is the animal that Abigal pretends to see in the courtroom when Mary Warren calls her a liar.
What is a bird?
This is the difference between presenting a play's title in MLA format and an article's title in MLA format.
What is underlining/italicizing and quoting?
This character had to watch his wife get hanged even though she had a great reputation as a charitable woman.
Who is Francis Nurse?
This is the psychological phenomenon that a few of the girls fell victim to in Salem's courtroom.
What is mass hysteria / collective hysteria?
This is the context and meaning of John Proctor saying, “Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!” in Act 2.
What is not being forgiven for his affair and she is cold to him?
This is what John Proctor yells at the court when they accuse him of witchcraft at the end of Act 3.
What is "God is dead!"?
Besides separating the sentences with a period, these are the two ways you can grammatically link two full sentences together.
What is a semicolon and a comma+conjunction?
Judge Danforth is intended to represent which Senator in Arthur Miller's allegory of the "witch hunt" for communists?
Who is McCarthy?
This character helped Abigail Williams steal all of Reverend Parris' money before they ran away together.
Who is Mercy Lewis?
This the public and private tone of Tituba's monologue when she tells Reverend Parris that the Devil ordered her to kill him.
What is interesting/virtuous/righteous and fearful/anxious/angry?
These are three reasons why John Proctor would not sign a paper confessing to witchcraft.
What is loyalty to his friends, being a mentor to his sons, and his reputation?
This is the difference of purpose between the topic sentence in the introductory paragraph and the topic sentences in the body paragraphs.
What is introducing topic of essay vs. introducing argument of body paragraph?