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Puritan Times
100
Even though he was a minister, he "cut a villianous path" through history.
Who is Reverend Parris?
100
She asks hesitantly in the first act, "My Betty be hearty soon?"
Who is Tituba?
100
Reverend Parris admits in Act I that he saw the girls in this place the previous evening.
What is the forest?
100
Elizabeth believes she has been accused by Abigail for this reason.
What is to take her place as Proctor's wife?
100
This is the usual method of carrying out the death penalty for witchcraft.
What is hanging?
200
This character assures the Proctors that he comes visiting their home of his own accord, not with the court's authority.
Who is Reverend Hale?
200
This man tells his wife, "You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'...Your justice would freeze beer!"
Who is John Proctor?
200
The place that Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse, and Elizabeth Proctor are all taken by the end of Act II.
What is jail?
200
Proctor rips this up irreverently in front of the deputy.
What is the warrant for Elizabeth's arrest?
200
During Puritan times, the government was run by church leaders; the name for this type of government
What is a theocracy?
300
Reverend Parris's niece
Who is Abigail?
300
He complains in Act I, "Don't a minister deserve a house to live in?"
Who is Reverend Parris?
300
Reverend Hale points out that Proctor has gone to this place twenty-six times in the past seventeen months.
What is church?
300
This piece of evidence seems to point clearly to Elizabeth's involvement in witchcraft.
What is a poppet?
300
Another name for the Devil during these times
What is Lucifer?
400
"Gentleness exudes" from this person.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
400
This man says authoritatively, "We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise."
Who is Reverend Hale?
400
Tituba's island home
What is Barbados?
400
The reason Abigail lives with Reverend Parris and his daughter.
What is she is an orphan?
400
The Puritans were trying to purify this particular church, a Protestant sect in England.
What is the Church of England?
500
This character admits that she wanted Tituba to conjure the spirits of her dead children.
Who is Mrs. Putnam?
500
When accused of being a witch, this woman says calmly, "If you think that I am one, then I say there are none."
Who Elizabeth Proctor?
500
Colony in which Salem was located in 1692.
What is Massachusetts?
500
Mary Warren's role in going to the court every day.
What is an official of the court?
500
Mary Warren tells Proctor that this charge will be brought against him if Abigail decides to discredit him.
What is lechery?