General Knowledge
Background knowledge
Knowledge on the Text
100

The author of the essay

What is Arthur Miller?

100

An example of a method for a public execution death 

What is hanging / stoning / crucifixion / burned at the stake / beheading?

100

The thing Miller compares public executions to

What is a sports event?
200

The nationality of the author

What is American? 

200

The place where public executions can be traced back to

What is Greece / Rome?

200

The plan for where the income gathered from the execution would go

What is the prison the inmate was housed in / trust fund for prisoner rehabilitation / family / the condemned? 

300

The profession of the author

What is a playwright?

300

The purpose of the public executions

What is they were meant to teach a moral lesson to spectators? 

300

The tone of Miller in the text

What is a satirical tone? 

400

The author’s second wife 

What is Marilyn Monroe? 

400
The location of the last public execution in the United States

What is Owensboro, Kentucky?

400

The belief Miller has on executions 

What is they bring no benefit to society?

500

The play that won Miller a Pulitzer Prize for Drama

What is Death of a Salesman? 

500

The reason for states moving towards private executions 

What is a rowdy crowd / public executions could stir sentiments against capital punishment?

500
The main objective of Miller in the text

What is he wishes that people realize that ineffectiveness of executions, which would be accelerated through his plan for public executions?