Characters
This is the person who couldn't be woken up at the beginning of the play.
Who is Betty Parris?
"I say shut it, Mary Warren!"
*+50 bonus points if you can name the scene when the line occurs*
Who is Abigail Williams?
Bonus: After Betty has "taken sick" and the teenage girls are gathered around, trying to decide what to do
Which two characters have a dramatic/lusty moment that sours in Act I?
Who are John Proctor and Abigail Williams?
In Act I, how was the opening scene different?
Play: Opens with Parris praying over Betty
Film: Opens with the girls' antics in the woods
This is the person who Abby tries to hex with chicken blood.
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
"Where is my wood? My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood."
*+50 bonus points if you can say who the speaker was arguing with*
Who is Reverend Parris?
Bonus: John Proctor and/or Giles Corey
What is the atmosphere in the Proctor home at the beginning of Act II?
*+50 bonus points if you can give a specific detail that shows how you know
What is AWKWARD?
In Act II, how is the Elizabeth Proctor arrest scene different (who is present to witness it)?
Play: Children are in bed upstairs
Film: Children witness the arrest and punch the jailers
This is the person who is testifying as a court witness and has gotten more bold with her employer because of it.
Who is Mary Warren?
*+50 Bonus points if you can say what the person was REALLY wondering here*
Who is Elizabeth Proctor?
Bonus: Where's her husband been (and with whom)?!
What "happens" to Abby that makes Elizabeth seem guilty?
What is she is "stabbed" with a needle and a needle is found in the poppet Mary Warren gave Elizabeth
Which scene did Miller cut from the play that he had originally written?
What is the scene where Proctor threatens Abby in the woods?
This is the person whose husband said she stopped his prayer by reading.
Who is Martha Corey?
"Twenty-six time in seventeen month, sir. I must call that rare. Will you tell me why you are so absent?"
*+50 bonus points if you can say the reason the person gives for being "so absent."
Who is Reverend Hale?
Bonus: Proctor says he's frustrated by Parris' use of church funds to buy golden candlesticks and it "hurts [his] prayer"
Whose testimony makes the girls start screaming and naming names at the end of Act I?
*+50 bonus points if you can repeat a specific detail from that person's testimony
Who is Tituba?
Bonus: She signed the devil's book; he told her to kill Parris; he told her he would return her to Barbados; he told her he had enslaved white people; Sarah Good and Sarah Osburn signed it too
How does the Tituba whipping scene change who you blame for her accusations?
It makes her actions seem more forced/do-or-die and understandable, so you blame Hale and the other "examiners" more than in the play
This is the person who spots the poppet in the Proctor's home.
Who is Ezekiel Cheever?
"I think I'll go, then. I am too old for this."
*+50 bonus points if you can name what caused this person to want to leave*
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
Bonus: She asks if "examining" Betty could hurt her, and Hale says that it might
Who are Elizabeth Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse?
Whose trial do we see in the film that we don't see in the book?
*+50 bonus points to explain how this effects the audience's view of the trial*
Who is George Jacobs?
Bonus: We see the madness of the accusations and how the town is blind to them/swayed by the girls' synchronous "reactions"