Review
Part I: The Crucible Final Test
1. Proctor doesn't like Parris because the minister
2. Tituba confesses that
3. John Proctor considers himself a sinner
because
4. In the woods, Abigail
5. The commandment John Proctor has broken is
6. What proof is used to charge Goody Proctor with witchcraft? Explain how this
proof came to be in her house.
7. Describe two pieces of evidence Giles Corey, Francis Nurse, and John Proctor use
to prove their wives’ innocence.
8. Why are the townspeople afraid of the court?
9. Why is Giles Corey found in contempt of court?
10. How does John Proctor attempt to prove Abigail is untrustworthy? (What does he
reveal to the court?)
11. What lie does Elizabeth tell to Judge Danforth? Why does she tell this lie?
12. Elizabeth will not hang because
13. The judges at the trial were
14. Abigail and the girls get Mary Warren to rejoin them by
15. By the end of Act III, what change have we seen take place in Rev. Hale?
16. At the end of Act III, John Proctor
17. Parris is worried at the beginning of Act IV because…
18. What does Parris ask that Danforth do about the hangings that morning?
19. Why does Danforth refuse to do this?
20. In Andover…
21. Why has Rev. Hale returned to Salem?
22. Why does Reverend Hale feel he has blood on his hands?
23. Why does Danforth arrange a meeting between John Proctor and Elizabeth?
24. According to Elizabeth, Giles Corey’s sons will be able to inherit his land
because…
25. How is Giles Corey executed?
26. When Proctor confesses to Danforth, Proctor refuses to ___________ any of his
friends or neighbors as __________.
27. After John has confessed, what does he do with the paper he has signed? Why?
28. Explain what a Flat character is versus a dynamic character. What might an
author use both of these characters?
29. Why was Abigail Williams dismissed as a servant from the Proctor’s home?
30. For what reasons did John Proctor disapprove of Reverend Parris? (Before the
trials began…)
31. What commandment does John Proctor forget when Hale asks him to repeat
them?
32. What two characters are marked to hang with John in Act IV?
How to write an answer to a quotation test:
Carefully read the following quotes and tell me these 3 things about each: 1) Who is
saying the quote? 2) What is going on in the play at the time the quote is said? 3)
Why is the quote significant?
Example:
“More Weight”
1)This is said by Giles Corey near the end of the play. 2)He has been found in
contempt of court because he will not give the name of the man who overheard
Putnam, and because he will not answer the charge of witchcraft “aye” or “nay”.
He says this when the jailers are laying heavy stones upon him to get him to speak.
3)It is significant because it shows that he is willing to die rather than confess to
witchcraft or bring harm upon another man. Also, it shows that he is a flat character
because he is still as stubborn as he was in Act I.
Practice with these, too
1. “Now look you. All of you. We danced…And that is all. And mark this. Let either
of you breathe a word…and I will come to you in the black of some terrible
night…And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the
pillow next to mine…”
2. “Why it is all simple. I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians
they should belie themselves. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood
on my head!!”
3. “He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him.”
4. “Tonight when I open my door to leave my house—a dagger clattered to the
ground…You cannot hang this sort. There is danger for me. I dare not step outside
at night.”
5. “We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.”
6. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and
sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang!
How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!”