Characters
The name of Parris's daughter, who is apparently possessed by witchcraft at the start of the play
Who is Betty?
How the play starts.
What is Reverend Parris praying over a sleeping Betty, wishing for her to wake up?
The name of the Reverend in town.
The name of the town where the play takes place.
What is Salem, MA?
The name of the Proctors new servant
Who is Mary Warren?
The name of the Parris Family servant, a slave from Barbados, who is accused of being a witch.
Who is Tituba?
What Reverend Parris catches the young girls of the town doing in the woods.
What is dancing in the woods?
What is singing and listening to songs from Barbados?
What is casting spells?
What is dancing naked?
The name of the Reverend from Beverly who comes to the town to try and save the possessed girls.
Who is Reverend Hale?
The year in which the play takes place.
What is 1692?
What the doctor tells Reverend Parris about Betty.
What is that this is not medical, and they need to look for other possibilities?
Parents to Ruth, overly religious, believes all the girls are being possessed by dark spirits, gossipers of the town.
Who are Thomas and Ann Putnam?
The reason why Abigail Parris was fired from the Proctor household.
What is Abigail was caught having an affair with John Proctor?
What those in Salem religiously practice.
What are Puritans/Puritanism?
Describe the mood that the people in the town are in. What are they acting like? Why?
What is they are talking about the possibility of witchcraft and charms being put on the townspeople. They are nervous that there is evil in the town. They are uneasy around everyone who used to be their friends and are pointing fingers at anyone suspicious
The age of Abigail Parris.
What is 17?
The name of the old woman in Salem who is rich, lives on a lot of land, and has a lot of children and grandchildren.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
How Abigail Parris tries to kill Goody Proctor.
What is drinking a charm with blood in it?
The person who is unliked by Reverend Parris because he doesn't attend church.
Who is John Proctor?
List two things that might have made people from Salem popular during this time.
What is money, religious involvement, land, gender, race, children, job?
The author of The Crucible
Who is Arthur Miller?
Name one other person (besides Tituba) who is accused of being a witch in Salem at the end of Act 1.
Who is Sarah Good, Goody Osbourn, Bridget Bishop, George Jacobs, Goody Howe, Martha Bellows, Goody Sibber, Alice Barrow, Goody Hawkins, Goody Bibber, Goody Booth.
Why Tituba confesses to witchcraft.
What is so she doesn't die?
What is she lies more to blame others and get herself off the hook?
The major sin from The Bible that John Proctor committed
What is adultery?
Why Reverend Parris refuses to acknowledge that Betty might be under the influence of witchcraft.
What is because of his status in the community as the reverend, he doesn't want to lose his job because his own daughter is under the influence of witches?
What it means to have your reputation in the village be "white".
What is that you're considered "pure" and have a clean record?