Act 1
Where is Tituba from?
What is Barbados?
Abigail: She always sings her Barbados songs, and we dance.
What gift did Mary Warren bring for Elizabeth?
What is a poppet?
Mary Warren: I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing.
Elizabeth, perplexed, looking at the doll: Why, thank you, it’s a fair poppet.
Why did Elizabeth not confess to Proctor’s lechery?
Why did she want to protect his reputation and save his name?
Danforth, reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To your own knowledge,
has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? 1n a crisis of indecision she
cannot speak, Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!
Elizabeth, faintly: No, sir.
Danforth: Remove her, Marshal.
Proctor: Elizabeth, tell the truth!
Danforth: She has spoken. Remove her!
Proctor, crying out: Elizabeth, I have confessed it!
Elizabeth: Oh, God! The door closes behind her.
Proctor: She only thought to save my name!
Who was innocently hanged at the end of this act?
Who is John Proctor?
Danforth: Marshal!
Parris, hysterically, as though the tearing paper were his life: Proctor, Proctor!
Hale: Man, you will hang! You cannot!
Proctor, his eyes fully of tears: I can. And there’s your first marvel, that I can.
Use one Crucible vocab word in a sentence.
What is vocabulary?
Name two people Abigail accused at the end of Act 1.
Who is Sarah Good, Good Osburn, Bridget Bushop, George Jacobs, Goody Howe, Martha Bellows, Goody Sibber, Alice Barrow, Goody Hawkins, Goody Bibber, Goody Booth?
BETTY: I saw Alice Barrow with the Devil!
The curtain begins to fall.
HALE, as Putnam goes out: Let the marshal bring irons!
ABIGAIL: I saw Goody Hawkins with the Devil!
BETTY: I saw Goody Bibber with the Devil!
ABIGAIL: I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!
Which commandment does Proctor forget when Hale was questioning him?
Thou shalt not commit adultery?
Proctor, counting on his angers: Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods, nor make unto thee any graven image. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain; thou shalt have no other gods before me. With some hesitation: Thou shalt remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy. Pause. Then: Thou shalt honor thy father and mother. Thou shalt not bear false witness. He is stuck. He counts back on his fingers, knowing one is missing. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.
Hale: You have said that twice, sir. Proctor, lost: Aye. He is failing for it.
Elizabeth, delicately: Adultery, John.
Who do the girls mimic and mock at the end of Act 3?
Who is Mary Warren?
Abigail, now staring full front as though hypnotized, and mimicking the exact tone of Mary Warren’s cry: She sees nothin’!
Mary Warren, pleading: Abby, you mustn’t!
Abigail AND All THE Girls, all transfixed: Abby, you mustn’t!
MARY Warren, to all the girls: I’m here, I'm here!
How many children does Proctor mention that he has?
What is 3?
Proctor: I have three children - how may I teach them to walk like men in the
world, and I sold my friends?
What is the name of the town and state in which the Crucible play is held?
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
What does Abigail claim Tituba caused her to do?
What is laughing during prayer, dreaming strange things, and drinking blood?
Abigail: She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer!
Parris: She have often laughed at prayer!
Abigail: She comes to me every night to go and drink blood!
What was the hard proof used in court against Sarah Good?
She claimed to mumble the commandments when walking away from people who rejected her but when asked to recite the commandments she couldn’t.
Mary Warren: And so I told that to Judge Hathorne, and he asks her so. “Sarah Good,” says he, “what curse do you mumble that this girl must fall sick after turning you away?”
And then she replies - mimicking an old crone - "Why, your excellence, no curse at all. I only say my commandments; I hope I may say my commandments,” says she!
Elizabeth: And that’s an upright answer.
Mary Warren: Aye, but then Judge Hathorne say, “Recite for us your commandments!” - leaning avidly toward them - and of all the ten she could not say a single one. She never knew no commandments, and they had her in a flat lie!
Who did Proctor and Parris ask to faint on command?
Who is Mary Warren?
Proctor: She only pretended to faint, Your Excellency. They’re all marvelous pretenders.
Hathorne: Then can she pretend to faint now? Proctor: Now?
Parris: Why not? Now there are no spirits attacking her, for none in this room is accused of witchcraft. So let her turn herself cold now, let her pretend she is attacked now, let her faint. He turns to Mary Warren. Faint!
What does Hale mean when he says this: “Woman, plead with him! – Be his helper! - What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!”
Why is Hale asking Elizabeth to talk Proctor out of his pride so that he will not be hanged innocently?
Hale: Woman, plead with him! He starts to rush out the door, and then goes back to her. Woman! It is pride, it is vanity. She avoids his eyes, and moves to the window. He drops to his knees. Be his helper! - What profit him to bleed? Shall the dust praise him? Shall the worms declare his truth? Go to him, take his shame away!
What did Brennan say instead of d*mn?
What is ham?
Who first mentions witches?
Who is Abigail?
ABIGAIL: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about.
How many people did Mary Warren say were arrested as of Act II?
What is 39?
Proctor: Mary. She halts. Is it true? There be fourteen women arrested?
Mary Warren: No, sir. There be thirty-nine now - She sud-denly breaks up and sobs and sits down, exhausted.
How many people did Judge Danforth condemn and hang in other towns?
What is 472?
Danforth: And do you know that near to four hundred are in the jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature?
Francis: I-
Danforth: And seventy-two condemned to hang by that signature?
What does Proctor do with his confession papers, and why?
Why does he rip up the confession papers; What does he does do for the sake of his own name?
Proctor, with a cry of his whole soul: Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!
Danforth, pointing at the confession in Proctor’s hand: Is that document a lie? If it is a lie I will not accept it! What say you? I will not deal in lies, Mister! Proctor is motionless. You will give me your honest confession in my hand, or I cannot keep you from the rope. Proctor does not reply. Which way do you go, Mister?
His breast heaving, his eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect.
What year did The Crucible take place?
What is the year 1692?
What did Abigail claim was in the kettle Parris saw in the forest?
What is soup?
PARRIS: I think I ought to say that I--I saw a kettle in the grass where they were dancing.
ABIGAIL: That were only soup.
HALE: What sort of soup were in this kettle, Abigail?
ABIGAIL: Why, it were beans- and lentils, I think, and-
What was Rebecca Nurse charged with when arrested?
What is the murder of Goody Putnam’s babies?
Hale: How is Rebecca charged, Mr. Nurse?
Francis, with a mocking, half-hearted laugh: For murder, she’s charged!
Mockingly quoting the warrant: “For the marvelous and supernatural murder of
Goody Putnam’s babies.” What am I to do, Mr. Hale?
What do Abigail and the other girls see on the ceiling after Elizabeth’s confession?
What is a yellow bird?
Mercy Lewis, pointing: It’s on the beam! Behind the rafters
Danforth, looking up: Where!
Abigail: Why - ? She gulps. Why do you come, yellow bird?
Proctor: Where’s a bird? I see no bird!
What drink does Parris offer to Proctor while he is in prison?
What is cider?
Danforth brushes past Hale and walks out. Hale follows. Cheever stands and follows, Hathorne behind. Herrick goes. Parris, from a safe distance, ayers:
Parris: If you desire a cup of cider, Mr. Proctor, I am sure I - Proctor turns an icy stare at him, and he breaks up. Parris raises his palms toward Proctor. God lead you now.
Name 10 characters in the Crucible.
What are characters?