Male Characters
Female Characters
Acts 1-2
Acts 3-4
Essay Structure
100

This character had to watch his wife get hanged even though she had a great reputation as a charitable woman.

Francis Nurse

100

This character is the first accused of witchcraft.

Tituba

100
This is what Reverend Parris caught the girls doing and this is where he found them.

Dancing in the forest

100
This is why the court won't immediately hang Elizabeth Proctor.

She is pregnant.

100

This is how many paragraphs one should write in an in-class essay, on average.

4-5

200

This character came to Salem to determine if there was witchcraft and then left Salem when he saw how corrupt its court was.

Reverend Hale

200

This character is Abigail Williams' cousin.

Betty Parris

200

When threatened with immediate hanging, Tituba accuses these two women of witchcraft.

Sarah Good and Goody Osburn

200
This is the animal that Abigail claims Mary Warren conjures in the courtroom to tear at her eyes.
A bird
200

This is the purpose of the thesis statement and where it goes in the essay.

Presenting the argument/opinion of the essay and the end of the introductory paragraph

300

This character told his daughter to accuse George Jacobs of witchcraft in order to obtain his land.

Thomas Putnam

300

This character accused John Proctor of witchcraft.

Mary Warren
300

This is the suspicious object that Herrick finds in the Proctors' home that leads to Elizabeth Proctor's arrest.

A poppet with a needle in it

300

This is the first lie that Elizabeth Proctor tells in her life that is said in an attempt to protect her husband from shame.

That he didn't have an affair with Abigail Williams

300

This is the difference of purpose between the topic sentence in the introductory paragraph and the topic sentences in the body paragraphs.

Introducing topic of essay vs. introducing argument of body paragraph

400

This character's wife was accused of bewitching pigs.

Giles Corey

400

This is the psychological phenomenon that a few of the girls fell victim to in Salem's courtroom.

Mass/Collective Hysteria

400

Elizabeth Proctor tells John to tell the court this important thing that could stop the lies. This is what he should share, and this is why he is nervous to do so.

That Abigail told him Betty and Ruth's symptoms were not from witchcraft, and that she told him alone so it would reveal he has a forbidden relationship with her

400

This is why Proctor first thinks that he might as well confess to witchcraft.

He's not a good man anyway and his reputation is already ruined.
400

This is the difference between presenting a play's title in MLA format and an article's title in MLA format.

Underlining VS Quoting

500

This is the ruthless minor judge who follows everything that Judge Danforth wants to do in the court.

Judge Hathorne

500

This character helped Abigail Williams steal all of Reverend Parris' money before they ran away together.

Mercy Lewis

500

"We are only what we always were, but naked now.  Aye! And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow," is said by whom, and means what?

John Proctor says this to mean that all the people in Salem will be exposed and punished by God in the courtroom.

500

These are two reasons why John Proctor decides, in the end, not to give the judges his confession.

He wants his sons to be able to "walk like men in the world," and he doesn't want to "sell" his friends who have died or will die for telling the truth.

500

Besides separating the sentences with a period, these are the two ways you can grammatically link two full sentences together.

A semicolon and a comma+conjunction