The Trials
Witches
Puritan Life
Story Elements
Novel Study
100
The Trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, which was part of this colony.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
100
Witches made a compact with this figure.
What is the Devil?
100
The Puritans would not let this group of people participate in government or make any decisions for the community.
What is women?
100
Who or what a story is about
Who are characters?
100
In this story, Kit has to move from Barbados to the colonies, where she struggles to fit in.
What is The Witch of Blackbird Pond?
200
The first person to be accused of witchcraft.
Who is Tituba?
200
When pierced with a needle, if this feature did not bleed, you were a witch.
What is birthmarks / moles?
200
Attending this was mandatory.
What is church?
200
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
200
This is the name of the protagonist in A Break with Charity.
Who is Susannah English?
300
Name three of the afflicted girls.
Who is Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Hubbard
300
The method of putting a witch in water to test her.
What is swimming a witch?
300
The Puritans took this very seriously if you strayed from the path of God’s work.
What is punishment?
300
The events that happen in the story
What is plot?
300
This is the name of the character whose journal is being read in I Walk in Dread
Who is Deliverance Trembley?
400
The year the witch trials occurred.
What is 1692?
400
Witches signed this. Tituba said there were nine names in it.
What is the Devil's book?
400
Puritans taught their children to read primarily so they could read this text.
What is the Bible?
400
The problem in a story
What is the conflict?
400
All of our book group books have this historical event in common.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
500
This type of evidence, similar to a ghost story, was accepted as fact during the trials.
What is spectral evidence?
500
Witches were not supposed to be able to recite this properly.
What is the Lord's Prayer?
500
The Puritans believed in Predestination, which meant this.
What is God had already chosen who would go to heaven and who would not.
500
These are the five parts of a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
500
What is the name of Ms. Albiston's cat?
What is Hobbes?
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