The Crucible Part 1
How would you describe Rev. Parris in Act I?
Selfish, overconfident, self-serving
These people are vengeful and use the suspicion of witchcraft to eliminate their enemies. Get this right, you get to steal points from another team.
Who are Thomas and Ann Putnam?
Why won't Giles Corey give up the name of his source in court? Get this right, you get to steal points from another group
He accidentally caused his wife to be accused of witchcraft.
This is the reason Mary Warren cannot stick to the truth in court.
What is she is afraid of and influenced by Abigail Williams?
Judge Danforth won't consider a postponement to the trials because he is worried about this.
The townspeople will rise up and question if those already hanged were really guilty?
She drinks a charm of blood to kill Elizabeth Proctor.
Abigail
This is one way to save oneself from hanging under a charge of witchcraft.
Confess to witchcraft, even if innocent
John Proctor forces her to go to the court to tell them of the girls' fraud.
Who is Mary Warren?
He was pressed to death with heavy stones for refusing to admit to witchcraft.
Who is Giles Corey?
In Act I, who tried to jump out of the window?
Betty Parris
This is why Reverend Parris is so concerned about is reputation.
He believes the congregation wants to drive him out of Salem.
Why is the tone of Act II tense, uncomfortable, and strange in the beginning?
Elizabeth Proctor knows that John cheated on her with Abigail and that he went to talk to her privately.
DOUBLE POINTS if you can tell me where John went to talk to Abigail in the movie version.
Who accuses Thomas Putnam of wrongdoing in Act III?
Giles Corey
DOUBLE POINTS if you can tell me the example he used in court to accuse him.
After quitting the court, Reverend Hale comes back to Salem for this purpose.
What is to convince those accused to confess so they will not hang?
He feels guilty for bringing suspicion on some of the people of Salem and feels disgusted by what the court and the girls are doing.
Who is Reverend Hale?
DOUBLE POINTS
Abigail says to the girls that if they say a word about what happened in the woods, she will "bring a pointy reckoning" on them. What does she mean by this?
She will use a knife to kill them.
DOUBLE POINTS if you can answer...
Why is she so confident that she could silence the girls?
This is the reason that church officials frown upon John Proctor.
What is he doesn't attend church regularly?
DOUBLE POINTS if you can tell me what he was seen doing instead of going to church?
This is why Elizabeth Proctor denied John's affair with Abigail.
What is to save his reputation?
Why does John Proctor retract his written confession?
Danforth is going to hang it on the church door.
Give me an example from The Crucible through the perspective of the sociological lens. DOUBLE POINTS
Any mass hysteria example will do.
What does Dr. Griggs say is wrong with Betty Parris? (DOUBLE POINTS)
What is she is sick by unnatural means.
This is the irony in the commandment that John Proctor forgot as he recited them to Reverend Hale. Get this wrong, you lose 200 points.
He forgot the one he broke, adultery.
Although at first he doubted John Proctor, in court he came to believe him.
Who is Reverend Hale?
Although at one point he had given up his fight for the truth, this is why John Proctor retracted his 'confession' to witchcraft.
What is he cared more about preserving his good name than saving his life?
Give me an example from The Crucible through the perspective of the psychological lens.
Any example of manipulation will do.