Characters
Quotations
Places
Details
Puritan Times
100
Miller states that even though this man was a minister in real life, he "cut a villainous path" through history.
Who is Reverend Parris?
100
She asks hesitantly in the first act, "'My Betty be hearty soon?'"
Who is Tituba?
100
Colony in which Salem was located in 1692
What is Massachusetts?
100
Elizabeth believes she has been accused by Abigail for this reason.
What is to take Elizabeth's place as John's wife?
100
During Puritan times, the government was run by church leaders; the name for this type of government
What is a theocracy?
200
Miller writes in the character notes about this person: "Who is Rebecca Nurse?Gentleness exudes from her."
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
200
This man tells his wife, "'You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'.... Your justice would freeze beer!'"
Who is John Proctor?
200
Reverend Parris admits in Act One that he saw the girls in this place the previous evening.
What is in the forrest?
200
The reason Abigail lives with Reverend Parris and his daughter
What is she is an orphan? (or: What is her parents were killed when she was small? or What is because no one wants to hire her to work in their home?)
200
The Puritans were trying to purify this particular church, a Protestant sect in England.
What is the church of England ? (or: What is the Anglican Church?)
300
Reverend Parris's niece
Who is Abigail?
300
The first thing this man asks in Act One is, "'Is she going to fly again?'"
Who is Giles Corey?
300
Tituba's island home
What is Barbados?
300
What is a poppet?
This piece of evidence seems to point clearly to Elizabeth's involvement in witchcraft.
300
Another name for the Devil during these times
What is Lucifer?
400
This character admits that she asked Tituba to conjure the spirits of her dead children.
Who is Mrs. Putnam?
400
He complains in Act One, "'Don't a minister deserve a house to live in?'"
Who is Reverend Parris?
400
Act Two takes place eight days later in this locale.
What is the Proctors' home?
400
Mary Warren's role in going to the court every day
What is an official of the court?
400
The nearby town that Reverend Hale comes from
What is Beverly, Massachusetts?
500
This character is introduced by Miller as "the most comical hero in the history."
Who is Giles Corey?
500
This man says authoritatively, "'We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise.'"
Who is Reverend Hale?
500
Reverend Hale points out that John Proctor has gone to this place twenty-six times in the past seventeen months.
What is church?
500
Parris's career before becoming a minister
What is a merchant?
500
This is the usual method of carrying out the death penalty for witchcraft.
What is hanging?
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