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The Trials
Witches
Puritan Life
Story Elements
Novel Study
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The Trials occurred in Salem, Massachusetts, which was part of this colony.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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Witches made a compact with this figure.
What is the Devil?
1
The Puritans would not let this group of people participate in government or make any decisions for the community.
What is women?
1
Who or what a story is about
Who are characters?
1
In this story, Kit has to move from Barbados to the colonies, where she struggles to fit in.
What is The Witch of Blackbird Pond?
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The first person to be accused of witchcraft.
Who is Tituba?
5
When pierced with a needle, if this feature did not bleed, you were a witch.
What is birthmarks / moles?
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Attending this was mandatory.
What is church?
5
When and where a story takes place
What is setting?
5
This is the name of the protagonist in A Break with Charity.
Who is Susannah English?
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Name three of the afflicted girls.
Who is Elizabeth Parris, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Elizabeth Hubbard
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The method of putting a witch in water to test her.
What is swimming a witch?
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The Puritans took this very seriously if you strayed from the path of God’s work.
What is punishment?
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The events that happen in the story
What is plot?
10
This is the name of the character whose journal is being read in I Walk in Dread
Who is Deliverance Trembley?
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The year the witch trials occurred.
What is 1692?
15
Witches signed this. Tituba said there were nine names in it.
What is the Devil's book?
15
Puritans taught their children to read primarily so they could read this text.
What is the Bible?
15
The problem in a story
What is the conflict?
15
All of our book group books have this historical event in common.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
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This type of evidence, similar to a ghost story, was accepted as fact during the trials.
What is spectral evidence?
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Witches were not supposed to be able to recite this properly.
What is the Lord's Prayer?
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The Puritans believed in Predestination, which meant this.
What is God had already chosen who would go to heaven and who would not.
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These are the five parts of a plot diagram.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution?
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What is the name of Ms. Albiston's cat?
What is Hobbes?