Characters
Who saw Mary sew in court?
Abigail Williams
John Proctor forgetting one commandment is an example of what literary device?
Irony
What is the setting of Act 2?
Who wrote "The Crucible"? When was it written?
Arthur Miller
1953
What does the title "Goody" mean or refer to?
Goodwife
Mrs.
The wife of someone
Elizabeth
Why hasn't John Proctor been in church lately?
His wife was sick
He doesn't see the light of God in Parris/doesn't like what he preaches/believes in
"I will fall like an ocean on that court" uses what literary device?
Hyperbole
Simile
What news does Mary bring from the court?
39 people are now accused
George Jacobs will hang
She is now an official of the court
Where does "The Crucible" take place?
Salem, Massachusetts
What does the word "pretense" mean?
A false claim or an attempt to falsify something
"I feel a misty coldness climbin' up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to creep, and I feel a clamp around my neck and I cannot breathe air, and then I hear a voice, a screamin' voice, and it were my voice--and all at once I remember everything she done to me!"
Mary Warren
How has John Hale changed in act 2?
He is doubting the validity of the accusations and reasonability of the court
He is less confident
He is worried
He feels guilty
Hale’s statement, “Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small,” makes use of what literary device?
metaphor
What object is used to frame Elizabeth in Act 2?
A poppet (doll)
What event in American history inspired the Arthur Miller to write "The Crucible"?
McCarthyism / The Red Scare
What does the word "prodigious" mean?
Unnatural, abnormal; remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree
"I'll tell you what's walking Salem--vengeance is walking Salem...the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!"
John Proctor
How has Mary Warren changed in act 2?
She is more confident
She is emboldened/empowered by her role in court
An "everlasting funeral marches around your heart" is an example of what literary device?
Symbolism
In Act 2, why does Elizabeth want John to go to Salem?
To tell the court that Abigail and the girls are lying about witchcraft.
What year does "The Crucible" take place? (rough estimate)
Late 1600s (1692)
What does the word "magistrate" mean?
a judge or officer of the court
"There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships...the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!"
Hale
What has Parris asked for that makes Proctor dislike/distrust him?
Golden candlesticks
Deed to the house/church/meeting house
Higher pay
"The crowd will part like the sea for Israel" is an example of what literary device?
Allusion
Simile
Why does Reverend Hale come to the Proctor household in Act 2?
To question them about their Christian nature.
The new servant of the Proctors who takes Abigail's place
Mary Warren
What does the word "calamity" mean?
An event causing a great or sudden damage; a disaster
"Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. And demanding' of her how she come to be so stabbed, she testify it were your wife's familiar spirit pushed it in."
Cheever
What makes Hale suspicious of the Proctors "Christian character"?
They haven't been in church
Their youngest isn't baptized
John can't remember all the commandments
Rumor that John doesn't believe in witches
"Your justice would freeze beer" is an example of what lit device?
Hyperbole
What commandment does John Proctor forget?
Adultery
Who is the first to be accused?
Tituba
What does the word "covenant" mean?
An agreement; a promise (especially between God and his people)
"...we are only what we always were, but naked now...And the wind, God's icy wind will blow!"
John Proctor
Which characters have been arrested at the end of act 2?
Martha Corey
Rebecca Nurse
Elizabeth Proctor
"This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot droppin' seeds in it" is an example of what literary device?
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Besides her confession, what else is keeping Sarah Good from hanging?
She is supposedly pregnant.
This old man sues everyone and accidentally gets his wife in trouble by telling others that she reads books.
Giles Corey
What does the verb "to quail" mean?
To show fear or apprehension
"I cannot think the Devil may own a woman's soul, when she keeps an upright way, as I have. I am a good woman, I know it; and if you believe I may do only good work in the world, and yet be bound to Satan, then I tell you, sir, I do not believe it."
Elizabeth