NAME:_________________________________
DATE:____________________
PERIOD:_________
Introductory Opinionnaire for The Crucible
Discuss each opinionnaire statement and circle the appropriate evaluation. Below each statement give
examples in support or explain your reasons for disagreeing.
1. “In America justice always prevails.”
strongly agree
agree
disagree
strongly disagree
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2. “It is better to die for a cause than live in fear.”
strongly agree
agree
disagree
strongly disagree
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3. “A lie to stay out of harm’s way is acceptable.”
strongly agree
agree
disagree
strongly disagree
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4. “Superstition is a harmless thing.”
strongly agree
agree
disagree
strongly disagree
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5. “It is acceptable to question authority in a time of crisis.”
strongly agree
agree
disagree
strongly disagree
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NAME:_________________________________
DATE:____________________
PERIOD:_________
Analyzing a Dynamic Character – The Crucible
Description of a Dynamic Character from The Crucible
Introduction
Body
Conclusion
Appropriate general background (5)
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Clearly established tone (5)
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Evident thesis or controlling statement (7)
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Interesting transition to the body (3)
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Logical order of ideas (5)
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Strong character traits developed (5)
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Specific examples/ discussion/ quotes for support (10)
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Clear discussion of change (10)
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Documented quotes correctly inserted (5)
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Final assessment of the situation (10)
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Usage and Mechanics
Total: (100)
Clear, concise sentence structure (10)
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Correct verb tense (5)
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Correct pronoun use (5)
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Appropriate word choice (5)
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Correct spelling, punctuation, capitalization (10)
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NAME:_________________________________
DATE:____________________
PERIOD:_________
The Crucible Compare (similar)/Contrast (different) Book to Movie Assignment
While watching The Crucible video, find information to support the THREE MAIN POINTS about the
similarities (compare) and differences (contrast) between the written play and the movie, The
Crucible.
Find an example for EACH MAIN POINT in EACH of the FOUR ACTS!
BE SPECIFIC AND DETAILED!! YOU WILL BE USING THIS FOR YOUR FINAL PAPER!!
a = Act 1 (ends with the girls crying out witch at Rev. Parris’ home)
b = Act 2 (ends with Proctor telling Mary Warren that she WILL call out Abby at Proctor’s
house)
c = Act 3 (ends with Proctor being arrested)
d = Act 4 (ends with the hanging)
A. Main Point 1- Movie is more descriptive
1. The movie is more descriptive than the play (DIFFERENCES).
a. Act 1b. Act 2c. Act 3d. Act 4B. Main Point 2- Movie has the same scenes
1. The movie contains many of the same situations as the play (SIMILARITIES).
a. Act 1b. Act 2c. Act 3d. Act 4C. Main Point 3- Movie shows more characters
1. The movie shows more characters then the play (DIFFERENCES).
a. Act 1b. Act 2c. Act 3d. Act 4Extra Credit (put on back): Find SCENES that were either NOT in the play OR that were in the play,
but NOT shown in the video (SCENES, not differences in scenes).
Name:_____________________ Period:_____
The Puritans and The Crucible
-Puritans came from England, and they wanted to purify their church/religion.
A. During the 17th and 18th century, belief in the reality of witches was widespread.
B. Puritans believed strongly, literally in the Bible
1. Exodus: 22:18 “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
C. Original Sin
1. devil really existed
2. he did not work alone, employed helpers “witches” to spread evil
-Puritans seem like “haters” of everything: believe in simplicity and democratic principles.
-Puritans were hard workers/farmers.
-Salem Witchcraft Trials:
Issues leading up to the trials:
A. Election of Rev. Parris
B. Family Feuds
1. Putnams & Nurses
C. Tituba, the slave of Rev. Parris
1. palmistry—dancing in the woods
Began with young girls accusing others:
A. Sarah Good – poor, a beggar
B. Sarah Osborne – poor, did not attend church regularly
C. Tituba – Parris’ slave
You could be accused if:
You had a doll, a mark on your body, you were a woman who would inherit money
from her father.
Confessions
1. if you confessed to being a witch, you were free.
2. salvation begins by confessing.
3. Rebecca Nurse refuses to confess=eternal damnation
-Accusations were false.
19 hanged
1 pressed to death
Hundreds were accused/some died in jail
-Jonathan Edwards was a minister during the Puritan time period. In 1741 - “Sinners in the
Hands of an Angry God” (p. 79)
The Crucible Act 1 & 2 Vocab.
Match the word with the definition
__1. inert-
a. stronghold/fortress
__2. marauded-
b. do not believe in God
__3. heathen-
c. belief system (usually religious)
__4. theology-
d. lifeless
__5. citadel______________________________
__6. propriety-
e. raid(steal) and pillage (destroy)
_______________________________
a. to feel offended
__7. ail-
b. secrets
__8. vindictive-
c. revengeful
__9. resentment-
d. proper
__10. intimations______________________________
__11. contention-
e. sickness
_______________________________
a. group/party
__12. naive-
b. a part of a group or party
__13. partisan-
c. competition
__14. faction-
d. say one thing, do another
__15. hypocrite______________________________
__16. arbitrate-
e. sheltered
_______________________________
a. comprehend/understand
__17. prodigious-
b. a separate being/group
__18. entity-
c. strange omen
__19. fathom-
d. judge the fairness
__20. drastic______________________________
__21. defamation-
e. severe
_______________________________
a. having no order
__22. anarchy-
b. close examination
__23. ascertain-
c. dealings with the Devil
__24. scrutiny-
d. to be certain
__25. diabolism______________________________
__26. yeomanry-
e. to disgrace
_______________________________
a. high powered judges
__27. fiend-
b. cow
__28. licentious-
c. a lack of restraint/a sinner
__29. heifer-
d. bad person
__30. magistrates-
e. a group of middle class people
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Name:______________________________ Period:_____ Date:_____________
FIND EACH VOCAB WORD AS WE READ IN THE TEXT
Word:
Pg #:
Sentence it appears in:
Create Your OWN Sentence
inert
marauded
heathen
theology
citadel
propriety
ail
vindictive
resentment
intimations
contention
naive
partisan
faction
hypocrite
arbitrate
prodigious
entity
fathom
drastic
defamation
anarchy
ascertain
scrutiny
diabolism
yeomanry
fiend
licentious
heifer
magistrates
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Character Profiles
Find AT LEAST THREE facts about each character that will help you to remember who each person is.
Use their connections to the other characters to help you keep each person straight.
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Reverend Parris_____________________________________________________
Betty Parris_____________________________________________________
Abigail Williams_____________________________________________________
Tituba_____________________________________________________
Mercy Lewis_____________________________________________________
Mary Warren_____________________________________________________
Susanna Walcott_____________________________________________________
Ruth Putnam_____________________________________________________
Mrs. Ann PutnamMr. Thomas Putnam_____________________________________________________
John Proctor-
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Elizabeth Proctor_____________________________________________________
Rebecca Nurse_____________________________________________________
Francis Nurse_____________________________________________________
Giles Corey_____________________________________________________
Martha Corey_____________________________________________________
Reverend Hale of Beverly_____________________________________________________
Ezekiel Cheever_____________________________________________________
Marshal Herrick_____________________________________________________
Judge Hathorne_____________________________________________________
Deputy Governor Danforth_____________________________________________________
Goody Osburn_____________________________________________________
Sarah Good-
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Name:______________________________ Period:_____ Date:_____________
The Crucible Guided Reading Questions
Act I: Opening scene to the entrance of John Proctor
Note:
The play is set in Salem, Massachusetts, 1692; the government is a theocracy—rule by God through religious
officials. Hard work and church consume the majority of a Salem resident's time. Within the community, there are
fights over land, boundaries, and deeds: a source of constant, bitter disagreements.
1. Who is lying “sick” in bed in the opening of the play? What is wrong with her?
2. Who is praying next to the “sick” girl’s bed? How are these two people related?
3. Reverend Parris discovers the girls doing what in the woods?
4. Who is the adult that is partaking in the event in the woods? How is this adult connected to Reverend Parris?
5. Who is Abigail Williams? How is she related to Reverend Parris?
6. Abigail Williams was once a servant to John and Elizabeth Proctor out in the country. How did she loose her
job? Who kicked her out of the household?
7. Abigail admits or denies the affair with John. Why does Reverend Parris, her uncle, not believe her?
8. Thomas Putnam and wife are a couple who hold two simmering grudges against the townsfolk. Explain each
person’s grudge.
Thomas Putnam (in concern to his brother-in-law):
Mrs. Putnam (in concern to her 7 children, and reason she sent Ruth to Tituba):
9. Why is Ruth Putnam so precious to her parents? When Mr. & Mrs. Putnam enter the scene, what do we learn
has happened to Ruth?
10. Mrs. Putnam confirms that Betty Parris must be a witch because:
11. Who is Mercy Lewis in relation to the Putnams, why has she showed up at Parris’s house?
12. All of the commotion has caused a crowd to gather inside of Reverend Parris’s house. He goes to settle the
crowd down/lead them in prayer. However, upstairs the house, the girls are starting to become worried. Why?
13. How is Mary Warren related to the Proctors? What is her biggest fear?
14. Betty Parris wakes up while her father is downstairs leading the crowd in prayer. Who does Betty scream for?
Why is this odd? Who slaps Betty to calm her down?
15. What is the real reason the girls are dancing in the woods? What is the lie they agree to use in order to cover up
dancing in the woods?
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Act I: Entrance of John Proctor to the entrance of Reverend Hale
Note: Adult townsfolk will be called into Parris’s home to figure out what to do about the commotion, give
advice/opinions, and make helpful/hurtful statements.
1. John Proctor enters Parris’s house looking for which girl? What threat does he make to this girl should she
leave their house again?
2. What is the discussion between Abigail and John Proctor?
3. What does Abigail say about John’s wife that offends him? What does he threaten to do to Abigail because of
her words?
4. While Parris is leading the crowd in a song, Betty starts screaming. Reverend Parris, Mercy Lewis, and Mr. &
Mrs. Putnam rush up to her room. What do they decide is the reason for Betty’s fit?
5.
Francis and Rebecca Nurse enter the room. Why do people like this married couple:
6. Who does not like the Nurses? Why?
7. Proctor and the Nurses are the voices of logics and reason. What advice are they giving Parris?
8. Describe the arguments between:
Proctor and Parris:
Proctor and Giles Corey:
Proctor and Putnam:
Act I: The entrance of Reverend Hale to the closing scene
Note: Reverend Hale arrives from Beverly Township. The girls start making wild accusations.
1. Reverend Hale, a young pastor, arrives to Parris’s house carrying what?
2. Which three people leave as soon as Hale arrives?
3. What oddity does Giles Corey make note of to Hale?
4. When Hale questions Abigail about their dancing in the woods, she first denies it is related to witchcraft. What
person does she blame for their dancing/charm concocting?
5. What is Tituba’s defense: what is her reasoning for concocting a charm/dancing in the woods?
6. Tituba starts listing off names of people that she has seen with the devil. Which name does Mrs. Putnam
confirm must be a witch? Why?
7. By the end of the play, Hale calls for the marshal to bring irons to arrest the accused witches. What names are
the girls accusing of being witches?
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Act II
Note: By this time, the witch trials and investigations are in full swing. The group of girls under Abigail’s control
are being used as “holy witnesses” that point out others in town who are witches.
1. Mary Warren is supposed to be home taking care of Elizabeth Proctor. Where has she been instead?
2. How many people are now in jail, accused of witchcraft?
3. What will happen to people who do not confess that they are witches?
4. How does Proctor know that there are no witches in Salem?
5. What gift does Mary Warren make for Elizabeth?
6. When Mary comes home, now how many people are accused of witchcraft?
7. What did Mary do to save Elizabeth Proctor in the court hearings that afternoon?
8. Why does Reverend Hale visits the Proctors’ house?
9. What does Hale ask the Proctors to recite? Which commandment does John forget? Why is that significant?
FINISH Act II with a group! ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AS YOU READ!!!
1. What does Proctor tell Hale about Abby?
2. Does Hale believe him? Give evidence.
3. What reason does Proctor give Hale for the women confessing to witchcraft?
4. Do Proctor and Elizabeth REALLY believe in witches? Why?
5. Who’s wives have been taken (TWO wives taken)?
6. What is EACH of the wives charges?
7. Who is being arrested now?
8. What evidence do they have against her? What proof have they found?
9. Why will Mary Warren NOT testify against Abigail?
10. How does Proctor react to Mary Warren?
Parts (9):
Narrator (3 italic words or more)ProctorHaleElizabeth ProctorGiles CoreyFrancis NurseCheeverHerrickMary Warren-
Group Member:
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Act III
Note: John Proctor is arrested in this act because Mary Warren says he is the devil’s man. Elizabeth tries to lie to
the court to cover up her husband’s affair.
1. In the courtroom, what accusation does Giles make against Putnam?
2. Proctor and Mary enter the courtroom. What does Mary tell the judges?
3. Proctor is also there because he is concerned about his wife. Judge Dan forth and Hathorne inform proctor that
she cannot be hanged because:
4. Proctor also brings paperwork stating that Elizabeth, Martha, and Rebecca are good women. How many people
have signed this statement?
5. Who is arrested in court?
6. When Danforth hears that Mary was only faking fits court because Abigail told her to, what does Danforth ask
Mary to do in order to prove she was in fact faking?
7. How does the group of girls respond to this?
8.
What does Proctor then confess? Who does he call a “wh***”?
9. What does Proctor say Elizabeth cannot do?
10. Danforth then calls in Elizabeth to confirm Proctor‘s story. Abigail and Proctor are asked to keep looking
straight ahead. Does Elizabeth confirm Proctor’s story of adultery? What is her story?
11. What does Mary say Proctor has done to her?
12. By the end of this act, who quits the court?
Act IV
Note: This act takes place later in the fall. Proctor, Rebecca, and Martha meet their fate at the end of this act.
Elizabeth is indeed pregnant.
1. Parris alerts Judges Danforth and Hathorne that Abigail and Mercy have done what two things?
2. Why is Reverend Hale back in town? What is he trying to convince the prosecuted to do?
3. Why do the Judges ask Elizabeth to speak to Proctor? What are they hoping she will help them do?
4. What has happened to Giles Corey? What are the only words Giles would say while being tortured?
5. Does Proctor agree to confess at first?
6. Where will Proctor’s confession be hanged?
7. Why won’t Proctor give the Judges the contract he signed?
8. What is Proctor’s fate? How does he ask Elizabeth to act?
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Name:______________________________ Period:_____ Date:_____________
Writing About Character
A well-developed character in a literary work has many facets, just as a real person does. When you
analyze a character, ask yourself the following questions about the portrayal of the character.
Choose one of the following characters from “The Crucible” and answer the questions about him/her.
JOHN PROCTOR * ABIGAIL WILLIAMS * ELIZABETH PROCTOR
* REV. PARRIS * MARY WARREN * REV. HALE
1. appearance: How does the character look and dress? What do these aspects of appearance
reveal about the character?
2. words and actions: What kinds of things does the character say and do? What kind of
language does the character use? What can the reader learn about the character from his/her
words and actions?
3. background: Where did the character grow up? What kind of educational background does
the character have? What past experiences has the character had? How does the character’s
background affect his/her thoughts and actions in the present?
4. personality: Does the character tend to be emotional or rational? principled or unscrupulous?
obstinate or open-minded? caring or cold?
5. motivation: What makes the character act and speak the way he or she does? What does the
character value? What are the character’s goals? dreams? desires? needs?
6. relationships: How does the character interact with other characters in the play? who are
his/her friends or enemies?
7. conflict: Is the character involved in some sort of conflict? If so, is the conflict internal (in the
character’s mind) or external (between the character and an outside force) How is the conflict
resolved?
8. change: Does the character change or grow in the course of the story? If so, how? How does
the reader know that the character has changed?
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Elements of Character/Character Web continued
With the information you have gathered; create a “character web.” On this web, place
the character’s name and/or illustration in the center. Next, branch off the elements of
character describing that person.
Rough Example:
change
words/
actions
background
appearance
Character’s
name
/illustration
personality
conflicts
relationships
motivation
You may use words and/or illustrations to create your web. Your web will be graded
on the following criteria:
 Aesthetics:
o Web is neatly done and typed
o Colorful, creative symbols, illustrations
 Content:
o Describes all eight elements of character
o Shows knowledge and insight into the character
 Final Form:
o Free of errors in G*U*M*S
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Character Web Rubric: The Crucible
50 points:
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Web is appealing and very attractive to the eye.
It is colorful with creative symbols or illustrations.
The web is typed.
The web addresses all eight elements of the character, shows great insight and
knowledge about the character.
 The web is free of errors in grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling.
40 points:
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Web is appealing and attractive.
Some color, symbols, or illustrations are used.
The web is typed.
The web addresses at least 7 of the 8 elements, shows insight and knowledge
about the character.
 The web has some errors in grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling.
30 points:
 Web does not use color, symbols, or illustrations in an appealing or attractive
way.
 The web is difficult to read.
 The web addresses no more than 3 elements of the character.
 Insight and knowledge are not evident.
 The web has many errors in grammar, usage, mechanics and spelling.
0 points:
 Web was not completed.
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Name:______________________________ Period:_____ Date:_____________
The Crucible Review
Do on your OWN PAPER!
What does “crucible” (the word) mean?
Who are the most important characters in the play? Why?
Who of the characters have reputations that improve? lessen?
Why does Abigail get fired from the Proctors’?
Who fires Abigail from the Proctors’?
Why is Ann Putman a sad woman?
Who does she send to the forest to meet with Tituba and why?
Which two girls are related to Rev. Parris?
What are the main reasons Abigail doesn’t want the truth to come out in the beginning about her
involvement in the woods?
10. Why would the girls fall into a coma-like state?
11. Who is Rev. Hale? Why does he come to Salem?
12. Who is Giles Corey? Who is his wife? What comment does he make about his wife and her reading?
13. When does the play take place?
14. How does the play begin in the book? How does that differ from the way the video began?
15. Know that Salem was run as a theocracy. (by the Bible)
16. Which of the following best describes John Proctor?
*meek and shy
* pious and religious
* jovial and light-hearted
* intelligent and independent
17. What is Rev. Parris most concerned about when Betty falls ill?
18. In Act II, what is happening with the women in Salem?
19. What kind of relationship do John and Elizabeth have? What kind of comments does John make toward
Elizabeth in the house?
20. Why does Hale go to the Proctors? What does he question them about?
21. Why does Mary Warren join the girls in their accusations?
22. Why does John Proctor not want to tell on Abigail in the beginning?
23. How could you save yourself from hanging?
24. Why is Goody Proctor arrested?
25. One of the major conflicts of Act II is between John Proctor and Ezekiel Cheever.
26. Why do Herrick and Cheever come to the Proctor household in Act II?
27. Who is Danforth? What is his opinion of John? Who threatens Danforth in the movie?
28. What is the one thing John swears his wife will never do?
29. Who begins to question the trials?
30. What does it mean when Elizabeth says John has his “goodness now”? She says this right before his
hanging.
31. What happens to Abigail? What does she do?
32. What does Rev. Hale beg Elizabeth to do at the end of the movie?
33. Why does Danforth continue on with the hangings?
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