Vocabulary
Using the quote from The Crucible, what does the term bewildered mean?
“This is no silly season, Rebecca. My Ruth is bewildered, Rebecca; she cannot eat.”
Very confused; mixed-up; puzzled
Reverend Parris' 17-year-old niece; leads the girls into the forest.
Abigail Williams
"He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!"
Elizabeth Proctor
When Rev. Parris' daughter becomes ill, he seems more concerned for this?
His reputation
n Act 1, who does Tituba accuse of being witches?
Sarah Good AND Sarah Osborn
“Then you tell me that you sat in my court, callously lying, when you knew that people would hang by your evidence?"
in a manner of feeling or showing no emotion
She discovers her husband has committed adultery with Abigail
Elizabeth Proctor
"Let either of you breathe a word... or the other thing, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you."
Abigail Williams
When Rev. Hale asks John Proctor to recite his commandments, which one does he forget?
Thou shall not commit adultery.
Parris had frequent conflicts with his congregation about:
His salary (money)
“If retaliation is your fear, know this - I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes “
returning like for like; vengeance for an injury
An old man who was pressed by stones.
Giles Corey
“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”
John Proctor
Martha Corey
Rebecca Nurse
Elizabeth Proctor
Who comes to the Proctor's house in Act 2 with an arrest warrent for Elizabeth Proctor?
Ezekiel Cheevers
“Is he yet adamant? Has he struck at you again?”
unyielding; unshakable or immovable especially in opposition
A minister who feared there was a conspiracy against him.
Reverend Parris
“I have fought three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me”.
Reverend Parris
What were the charges against Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse?
Martha Corey: killing Walcott's pigs by her books
Rebecca Nurse: killing the Putnum babies
Abigail pretended Mary Warren took the shape of what in the courtroom?
A bird
“Danforth is a grave man in his sixties, of some humor and sophistication that does not, however, interfere with an exact loyalty to his position and his cause.”
cultured; knowledgeable
She is a motherly woman with immense goodness and respect, who is later charged with murder.
Rebecca Nurse
“I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons”.
Rebecca Nurse (aka Goody Nurse)
John Proctor screams at Judge Danforth to leave him at least one shred of dignity by leaving him his:
Name
What does John Proctor do to his confession?
(2 things)
Signs it then rips it up