ACT I
This is what is wrong with Betty Parris at the beginning of Act I.
What is she is in a coma-like state. (She later wakes and has fits).
This ironic omission made Proctor look suspicious.
What is not saying "Thou shalt not commit adultery"?
Abigail accused this person, her replacement, of bewitching her in court.
Who is Mary Warren?
What Reverend Parris found in his door that disturbed him.
What is a dagger?
This is the fear some people experience when they're concerned their way of life is being threatened by another (often unfamiliar) group.
What is cultural anxiety?
When Mrs. Putnam said, "Reverend Parris, I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the earth. Believe me, sir, you never saw more hearty babies born." She was suggesting this.
What is Rebecca Nurse killed the babies by witchcraft?
This is what Elizabeth Proctor says when she learns the witch trials have begun.
What is “Oh, the noose, the noose is up!”?
This hardly judicious character said, "a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between."
Who is Danforth?
Reverend Hale begs John Proctor to commit this act to save himself.
What is to confess?
Hale: Mary Warren, a needle have been found inside this poppet.
Mary Warren (bewildered): Why, I meant no harm by it, sir.
Proctor (quickly): You stuck that needle in yourself?
Mary Warren: I - I believe I did, sir, I -
This scene is an example of this contradictory sounding term.
What is disconfirmation bias?
This is the setting of the entire first act of the play.
What is Betty Parris' bedroom?
It might have been easier for a camel to pass through the eye of this damning piece of evidence used against Elizabeth Proctor.
What is the needle in the poppet?
This is what Elizabeth was responding to when she says, "Oh God".
What is John saying, "Elizabeth, I have confessed it!"?
This created the town's bovine disturbance.
Yet another negative result of the witch trials.
What is too many farmers being arrested?
This excerpt from Act III, "A wind, a cold wind, has come. Her eyes fall on Mary Warren." She goes cold, so that when Hathorne touches her, he confirms it, and she is "shivering visibly." The other girls -- Mercy Lewis and Susanna Walcott -- see what Abgail is doing and follow suit, saying how they freeze, too." is an example of this.
What is hysteria?
This is what Mrs. Putnam sent her daughter to ask Tituba to do.
What is conjure the spirits of her dead children?
This is what John Proctor was explaining to Hale when he said, "I see no light of God in that man. I'll not conceal it."
What is why his youngest son hadn't been baptized?
This is to whom John Proctor was speaking when he said this "Do that which is good, and no harm will come to thee."
It later proved to be ironic.
Who is Mary Warren?
These are the final two words uttered by Giles Corey?
What is more weight?
A person who believes in extrasensory perception (ESP) will feel validated and verified when 'I was thinking about Mom and then the phone rang and it was her!' proves their psychic abilities. This is an example of this.
What is confirmation bias?
This is who Betty called for when she awakened, and what she tried to do.
[answer is both who and what]
What is her dead mother and fly out of the window?
This conflicted character was referring to this retaliatory noun when he said this paraphrased statement, "I'll apprise you of what is perambulating about our hamlet."
[character's name and the noun]
What is John Proctor and vengeance?
This blasphemous statement (also a Nietzsche quote) yelled in front of God and the entire court is what ultimately landed John Proctor in jail.
What is "God is dead!"?
This is what this suddenly sanguine character professes to have on his crown.
[character and substance]
What is Hale and blood on his head?
"I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me God."
This is a leftover from this 300-year-old regime.
What is a Puritan theocracy?