Act I
Where does this act take place?
Betty Parris' bedroom
Complete the quote: "Theology, sir, is a fortress..."
"No crack in a fortress may be accounted small."
Complete the quote: "A person is either with this court or must be counted against it:"
"There be no road in between"
What were Giles Corey's last words?
"More weight."
When was the premiere of The Crucible?
1953
"As always, trouble in [Parris'] house lands on" whose back?
Tituba's
What lie does John tell Elizabeth at the beginning of the act?
That the rabbit stew is "well-seasoned"
Complete the quote: "We burn a hot fire here..."
"... it melts down all concealment."
What is John's final instruction to Elizabeth?
"Show a stony heart and sink them with it?"
What is the name of the U.S. senator who targeted Arthur Miller and other suspected former communists?
Joseph McCarthy
What did the Salemites believe they held in their steady hands?
"The candle that would light the world"
What is John's rhetorical question about accusers?
"Is the accuser always holy now?"
What invisible creature does Mary Warren supposedly send to attack the other girls in the court?
A yellow bird
How many times does John use the anaphora of "Because" in the famous "Because it is my name!" speech?
Four times
What do we call a story, like The Crucible, which is a metaphor for another story (sometimes historical, sometimes Biblical, etc.)?
An allegory
What is the four word joke which Miller was dismayed to find NO ONE laughed at?
"The devil is precise."
"Lilacs have a purple smell" is an example of which technique?
Synaesthesia
What did the angel Raphael say to the boy Tobias?
"Do that which is good and no harm will come to you."
Complete the quote (two words): "What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust..."
"... praise him?"
What does HUAC stand for?
House UnAmerican Activities Committee
Complete the quote: "There is either obedience or..."
"...the church will burn like Hell is burning!"
Identify TWO Biblical references (not counting the Commandments) from this act.
a) "Pontius Pilate!"; and
b) "Where [Abigail] walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel."
John's claim that "there might be a five-legged dragon in [his] house" is an example of which technique?
Reductio ad absurdum
Who, as Danforth tells us, did God empower... to stop this sun from rising"?
Joshua
What is the name of Miller's childhood friend and fellow artist who DID name names for the HUAC, leading to a years long feud between the two?
Elia Kazan