What is the movement led by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during a time many Americans were afraid of Communism infiltrating into the U.S. government?
McCarthyism
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Who is an older woman who is widely respected throughout Salem?
Rebecca Nurse
100
When did Arthur Miller's The Crucible get published?
1953
100
Who said "You beg me to conjure! She beg me make charm--?"
Tituba
100
Who said "There be no blush about my name"?
Abigail
200
What is the period of general fear of communists in the U.S.?
Red Scare
200
Who is one of the oldest men in the town of Salem and good friend of John Proctor's?
Giles Corey
200
What is Arthur Miller's play based on?
Events that took place in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
200
Who said "It's winter in here yet"?
John Proctor
200
Who said "There is a prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. Let us rather blame ourselves and--"?
Rebecca Nurse
300
Who were the group of screenwriters accused of Communism during the McCarthy era?
Hollywood Ten
300
Who is head of court case dealing with the witch-hunt?
Gov. Danforth
300
Why did Arthur Miller write The Crucible?
In response to the "Red Scare" of the 1950s, in which many artists (himself included) were accused of Communist ties.
300
In Act II, who said "No man may longer doubt the powers of the dark are gathered in monstrous attack upon this village"?
Rev. Hale
300
Who said "There is a party in this church. I am not blind; there is a faction and a party"?
Rev. Parris
400
Committee established in 1938 by the House of Representatives to investigate individual Americans or organizations who might be linked to the Nazis or the Ku Klux Klan.
HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee)
400
Who is the 17-yr-old girl who works for the Proctors?
Mary Warren
400
What does Miller show us?
Absurdity of the incident with the theme of truth and righteousness
400
Who said "If you think that I am one, then I say there are none"?
Elizabeth Proctor
400
Who said "They must be; they are weighted with authority"?
Rev. Hale
500
What were wrongful prosecutions of thousands of Americans for being Communists or Soviet spies?
Red Hunts
500
Who is Rev. Parris' slave from Barbados?
Tituba
500
In The Crucible, what character struggles the most?
John Proctor
500
Who said "The pure in hearts need no lawyers"?
Gov. Danforth
500
Who said "I'm not sayin' she's touched the Devil, now, but I'd admire to know what books she reads and why she hides them. She'll not answer me, y'see"?