Characters
The girl who leads the others in the woods
Who is Abigail Williams?
Where the girls are discovered dancing
What is the forrest?
The main judge of the court
Who is Judge Danforth?
Irrational fear spreading through a community
What is mass hysteria?
Senator linked to the Red Scare
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Reverend Parris’s fearful and sickly daughter
Who is Betty Parris?
The secret Abigail wants to keep hidden
What is her affair with John Proctor?
Parris’s main goal during the trials
What is protecting his reputation?
Choosing honesty over safety
What is personal integrity?
Essay supporting resistance to unjust laws
What is “Civil Disobedience”?
The servant whose gift nearly ruins Elizabeth
Who is Mary Warren?
The item found in Elizabeth’s home
What is the poppet?
Why Danforth refuses to stop the trials
What is to protect the authority of the court?
The real-life event the play represents
What is the Red Scare / McCarthyism?
Author of “Civil Disobedience”
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
The minister who changes his mind about the trials
Who is Reverend Hale?
The fact Proctor admits in court
What is that he committed adultery?
Why Giles Corey is arrested
What is contempt of the court?
What Act 3 symbolizes in modern history
What is a HUAC-style hearing?
Poem about madness vs. society
What is “Much Madness is divinest Sense”?
The farmer who chooses death over false confession
Who is John Proctor?
The demand the court makes in Act 4
What is that the prisoners confess to witchcraft?
Final action that proves Giles Corey’s strength
What is his refusal to name names (“more weight”)?
Main message in Proctor’s final choice
What is that integrity is more valuable than life itself?
Story criticizing enforced equality
What is “Harrison Bergeron”?