The Crucible
A pot in which metals or other substances are heated to a very high temperature or melted
What is a crucible?
The name of the author and main character
Who is Elie Wiesel?
The author of the book
The fictional island that acts as the setting for half of the play
What is Belmont?
Poem featuring the lines, "Then a twinkle grew in the buckshot eye, And he gave us a riddle instead of reply: 'He who serves me best,' said he, 'Shall earn the rope on the gallows-tree.'"
What is "The Hangman" by Maurice Ogden?
The author of the famous play
Who is Arthur Miller?
The prisoners cry during a hanging even though they typically never cry
What happens when a young boy is hanged?
The love interest of the main character
Who is Julia?
The name of the character who leaves Shylock's service to work for Bassanio
Who is Lancelot Gobbo?
Poem featuring the lines, "And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place."
What is "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robertson?
Said, “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!”
Who is John Proctor?
The years of WWII
What are 1939 through 1945?
The horrible fear of the main character
What is the rat?
The names of the two characters often in the company of Bassanio and Gratiano
Who are Solanio and Salarino?
Poem featuring the lines, "Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved."
What is "Sonnet 116" by William Shakespeare?
The local minister who feels like he has no control over his congregation and has a wayward niece
Who is Reverend Parris?
The Jewish man who tried to warn the people of Sighet of what was coming but was ignored
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
Said, "One does not establish a dictatorship in order
to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power."
Who is O'Brien?
The Jewish friend of Shylock who goes in search of Jessica
Who is Tubal?
Poem featuring the line, "So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day."
What is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost?
The method in which Giles Corey is executed
What is pressed to death?
Name of the camp that the main character was liberated from
What is Buchenwald?
The last line of the nursery rhyme, "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St Clement's,/You owe me three farthings, say the bells of St Martin's,/When will you pay me? say the bells of Old Bailey,/..."
What is, "When I grow rich, say the bells of Shoreditch"?
Said, "I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one."
Who is Antonio?
Poem featuring the lines, "Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt Drag out to their last dregs and I resume On such legs as are left me, in such heart As I can manage, remember to go home, My taste will not have turned insensitive To honey and bread old purity could love."
What is "my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell" by Gwendolyn Brooks?