Character Trackin'
He provides the comic relief in the play. He is worried his wife is reading "strange books." He has been involved in many lawsuits as the plaintiff (complainant).
Who is Giles Corey?
This word means being willing to serve or obey others; obsequious; subordinate.
*Hint: Mary Warren is described this way by the dramatic exposition (narrator).
What is subservient?
This word describes how the people of Salem's tendency to gossip and nose around in each other's personal business.
***trepidation***creed***defamation***predilection***
What is predilection?
This is the setting of the opening of Act I.
What is Rev. Parris's house, Salem, 1692.
She is a 72-year old woman. She is sensible and claims the girls are just going through "silly seasons."
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
Abigail threatened her friends to make sure their accounts of their night in the woods would ___________ her own.
*discredit **afflict ***corroborate ****conjure
What is corroborate?
Abigail seems to be waiting avidly for John Proctor to return to her.
*A synonym for avidly is...
What is eagerly; excitedly; keenly; enthusiastically
This is the person who, according to Abigail, has been "blackening her name in the village".
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
When Thomas Putnam and John Proctor argue, Putnam brings up Proctor's failure to do this regularly to attack his credibility and morality.
What is attend church every Sunday?
This is the character who assumes most of the blame for what has transpired in the woods.
Who is Tituba?
John asks Giles Corey not to sue him for _______ when Proctor playfully calls him deaf.
*trepidation **creed ***partisan ****defamation
What is defamation?
Much of Act I is dedicated to finding out whether _____________ have been done in the forest.
What are abominations?
Name a reason Thomas Putnam accused Sarah Osburn of being a witch.
What is because she was the Putnam's midwife, homeless, and an outcast?
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible because he felt he was living through his own "witch hunt" known as this obsession with seeking communists.
What is a The Red Scare.
This man is "not just some preaching farmer with a book under [his] arm". He's a widower and single-dad, and he is very concerned with his reputation.
Who is Reverend Parris?
John Proctor was rarely seen as a _______, but most would have been happy to have Proctor on their side in an argument.
*subservient **creed ***repression ****partisan
What is partisan?
A partisan is a fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
Ann Putnam sent her daughter, Ruth, to ________ the spirits of her dead siblings and determine the cause of their deaths.
*innate **conjure ***afflict ****partisan
What is conjure?
To summon by magical or supernatural power.
This character is summoned from another town because he is supposed to be an expert in the demonic arts. He arrives with many reference books to help him on his holy quest.
Who is Reverend Hale?
This term is one of the causes for the scene at the end of Act I.
What is hive/mob/herd mentality?
This person's request is actually the reason the girls were in the woods on the night Betty and Ruth fell "ill".
Who is Ann Putnam?
Puritans saw the "Indians" as _________ and tried to convert them to their brand of Christianity. This is especially ___________ because religious freedom was what the Puritans were seeking in Salem.
In Act I, readers learn that the Nurse family, although despised by the Putnams, were well-respected in the community. In fact, Francis Nurse was even called upon to ______________ disputes between other townspeople.
***corroborate***smirch***arbitrate***defame***
What is arbitrate?
Reverend Parris was the first Salem minister to request this, just one of the reasons John Proctor insinuates Parris is a greedy man.
What is the deed to his home/the meetinghouse?
This is the country the Puritans traveled from to pursue their version of religious freedom in America, and
this is the type of government they desired, one centered around religion.
What is Great Britain...a theocracy?