Quiz – Act One of The Crucible
1. Where does this play take place?
a. Portsmouth, NH
b. Boston, MA
Name ______________________________________
Date ___________________ Block ___________
c. Salem, MA
2. Betty reveals that Abigail drank a charm to kill ____________?
a. Ruth
b. Elizabeth
c. Mary
d. Rochester, NY
d. Tituba
3. Why is Reverend Parris reluctant to tell people that someone in his house may be bewitched?
a. He knows that information will cause mass hysteria
b. He does not believe in witches or the supernatural.
c. He feels that his enemies will destroy his reputation.
d. His concern for Betty overshadows his concern for the parish.
4. Who lost 7 babies?
a. Goody Putnam
b. Betty
c. Goody Proctor
d. Sarah Good
5. Who had an affair with John Proctor?
a. Betty
b. Abigail
c. Ann
d. Mary Warren
6. Thomas Putnam treats Reverend Parris with
a. contempt
b. respect.
c. admiration.
d. awe.
7. Which two men does Proctor have an argument with?
a. Francis Nurse and Giles Corey
c. Reverend Hale and Reverend Parris
b. Reverend Parris and Thomas Putnam
d. Reverend Hale and Francis Nurse
8. Whom does Abigail blame for witchcraft?
a. Goody Putnam
b. Betty
Goody Nurse
d. Tituba
9. Why doesn’t Abigail want Parris and the others to know what she was doing in the forest?
a. She is afraid she will be punished for running
c. She fears that Tituba will be hanged.
naked.
d. She drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife.
b. She doesn't want to get her friends into
trouble.
10. Why are Proctor and Putnam arguing?
a. Proctor doesn’t go to church
b. About land
c. Putnam knows Proctor cheated on his wife
d. About who is accused of witchcraft.
11. She admits to “dancing with the devil” and “writing in his book” at the end of Act I. She also claims
to have turned to Jesus.
a. Abigail
b. Betty
c. Tituba
d. Goody Putnam
12. Which adjectives best describe most of the villagers in Act One;
a. superstitious: judgmental
c. level-headed; reasonable
b. kindhearted; decent
d. tolerant; understanding
13. Why did Rebecca Nurse advise Parris to send Hale back immediately?
a. She felt that Parris was capable of handling the situation by himself.
b. She knew Hale’s presence would frighten people and cause upheaval
c. She knew the villagers resented the presence of an outsider.
d. She believed that Hale was an impostor and a fraud.
14. Why did Tituba confess to meeting with the Devil?
a. She thought the villagers would have more respect for her.
b. She feared she would be hanged if she didn't confess.
c. She wanted to please Reverend Parris.
d. She truly believed she had conjured up the Devil.
15. Which of Arthur Miller’s lines best expresses a main theme of Act One?
a. REBECCA: There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.
b. PARRIS: What shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing in the forest?
c. ABIGAIL: I saw Goody Booth with the Devil!
d. PROCTOR: Put it out of mind, Abby.
16. From reading Act One, what conclusion can you draw about John Proctor?
a. He fears and respects the Reverends Parris and Hale.
b. He believes that witchcraft has made the children ill.
c. He rebels against the authority of the church by speaking his mind.
d. He will do any thing to destroy Thomas Putnam.
Directions: In the space provided write the speaker of the following quotes.
________________ 17. You must have no fear to tell us who they are, do you understand? We
will protect you. The devil can never overcome a minister.
________________ 18. Abby, we’ve got to tell. Witchery’s a hangin’ error, a hangin’ like they
done in Boston two year ago. We must tell the truth, Abby!
________________ 19. I have fought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to
me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise
my very character.
________________ 20. My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled!
________________ 21. You never saw more hearty babies born. And yet, each would wither in
my arms the very night of their birth. I have spoke nothin’, but my heart has clamored
intimations.
________________ 22. Listen now; if they be questioning us, tell them we danced—I told him as
much already.
________________ 23. I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand
before I’ll ever reach for you again.
________________ 24. I have eleven children and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have
seen them all through their silly seasons… a child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by
running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
________________ 25. He say Mr. Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr. Parris
mean man and no gentle man, and he bid me rise out of my bed and cut his throat.