Who's Who?
Carries the weight of a secret sin.
Who is John Proctor?
Elizabeth is given another year to live because she is this.
What is pregnant?
Danforth asks Elizabeth to plead for Proctor's __________.
What is confession?
The character called from out of town who loses faith in justice and the church by the end of the play.
Who is Reverend Hale?
The event in the 1950s that prompted Miller to write The Crucible.
What is the Red Scare?
Besides Danforth, a judge who presides over the trials.
Who is Hathorne?
The character who is being interrogated at the beginning of Act III, on the charge of reading fortunes and thus being a witch.
Who is Martha Corey?
When pressed to plead aye or nay, Giles Corey said this.
What is "more weight"?
Guilty of conjuring spirits and eventually confesses to witchcraft and names others as witches.
Who is Tituba?
The Salem Witch Trials, and thus The Crucible, took place in this year.
What is 1692?
Arrests those accused of witchcraft.
Who is Cheever?
Cheever reveals to Danforth that John Proctor ________ the warrant for his wife?
What is ripped?
Proctor chooses to die rather than to _________.
What is ruin his good name?
Pretends to see witches and later confesses to having made up the stories.
Who is Mary Warren?
The name of the Senator who vigorously sought out those with connections to Communism.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Is a grandmother of many and is well-respected in the community.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
What is lechery/adultery?
Rather than hand his confession to Danforth, Proctor does this.
What is tear and crumple the paper?
Is motivated by private vengeance for past slights from the community and by the greed for land.
Who is Thomas Putnam?
The term that describes the intense and communal emotional reactions of both 1692 and of the 1950s.
What is mass hysteria?
Is bitter about the deaths of seven of her children.
Who is Ann Putnam?
What is Elizabeth lies about John's adultery?
The number of executions before the Salem witch hunt came to an end.
What is nineteen?
Is infatuated with a former employer and deliberately increases the witchcraft hysteria.
Who is Abigail Williams?
The Red Scare was called "Red" for this reason.
What is the color of the Soviet flag?