Show:
The Players
Naughty Business
Vocabulary
Literary Elements
Act III
100
She is the slave from Barbados, who is accused of forcing the young girls of Salem to participate in witchcraft and devil worship.
Who is Tituba?
100
Reverend Parris catches his niece and her friends doing what in the forest prior to the beginning of the play?
What is dancing?
100
Delighted: showing or feeling great pleasure or delight.
What is ecstatic?
100
This is the "when" and the "where" of the play; in The Crucible, it is Salem, Massachusetts, 1692
What is the setting?
100
Mary Warren comes to court with John Proctor with a signed deposition that states that the girls were doing this.
What is pretending?
200
She is Reverend Parris' daughter, who is ill when the play opens.
Who is Betty?
200
He has an affair with Abigail Williams.
Who is John Proctor?
200
Extreme or unnatural paleness
What is pallor?
200
John Proctor is ordered to recite the Ten Commandments and he forgets 'thou shall not commit adultery". This is an example of what?
What is dramatic irony?
200
91 individuals who attest to the good names of Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey will be issued warrants for arrest for signing this.
What is a petition?
300
He was called in from Beverly because he's a witchcraft specialist.
Who is Reverend Hale?
300
She defies her employers and returns to Salem.
Who is Mary Warren?
300
Angry at unfairness: angry or annoyed at the apparent unfairness or unreasonableness of something
What is indignant?
300
According to Freytag's Pyramid, at what stage is the beginning of the plot where characters and settings are being exposed?
What is the exposition?
300
John Proctor claims that his wife cannot do this.
What is lie?
400
He unwittingly accuses his own wife of witchcraft, and eventually is pressed to death.
Who is Giles Corey?
400
Abigail accuses Elizabeth Proctor of sending out her spirit to drive this into her abdomen.
What is a needle?
400
Bungling or clumsily; incompetent
What is ineptly?
400
The struggle between Abigail Williams and John Proctor is an example of this literary element.
What is external conflict?
400
Giles Corey accuses Thomas Putnam of accusing his neighbors of witchcraft so he can have access to this.
What is their land?
500
She has lost seven babies to stillbirth, and eventually accuses Rebecca Nurse of killing them with witchcraft.
Who is Ann Putnam?
500
Abigail Williams and Mercy Lewis run away after robbing him in Act IV.
Who is Reverend Parris?
500
Distastefully lustful behavior: lewd and lustful behavior, especially by a man, that is regarded as distasteful
What is lechery?
500
"Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers?" is an example of this literary element.
What is a simile?
500
At the end of Act III, he denounces the proceedings and quits the court.
Who is Reverend Hale?