The Crucible – Jenga Questions
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Why, at the beginning of the play, has Parris sent for a doctor?
What news does the doctor send to Reverend Parris about Betty’s condition?
Who is the first person that Abigail accuses of witchcraft?
Who arrives in Salem to help deal with the rumors of witchcraft?
What does Abigail say that Tituba makes her do that proves Tituba is a witch?
Why did Mrs. Putnam contact Tituba in the opening act?
FREE POINT
Who wrote The Crucible?
What was Betty Parris supposedly seen doing in town that add to the witchcraft rumors?
What does Betty reveal that Abigail did in the woods?
What is the dispute between John Proctor and Thomas Putnam over?
FREE POINT
Why did Mary Warren leave the Proctors’ house and go to Salem?
What animal supposedly jumped into the soup the girls were making in the forest?
What item does Mary give Elizabeth when she returns home?
FREE POINT
What is one reason John Proctor gives Hale for his absences from church?
Why does Reverend Hale come and visit the Proctors?
What is the only way someone accused of witchcraft can save their life?
Which character is the slave of Reverend Parris?
In what state is the Crucible set?
Who do Cheever and Herrick arrest from the Proctor house in Act II?
Why does Mary Warren say she is afraid to testify?
FREE POINT
In Act I, why does it say that Elizabeth so rarely goes to church?
What does Proctor present at the trial that angers the judges?
Which character in the play comes to regret his role in the witch hunt?
How old is Abigail Williams?
What is the source of tension in the Proctor household?
What were Abigail and the other girls doing in the forest when Reverend Parris saw them?
What does John Proctor refuse to have done for his third son because of his disdain for Parris?
What object is found in the poppet and in Abigail’s stomach in Act II?
Which character in the play represents the voice of reason?
FREE POINT
What does Reverend Hale ask John Proctor to recite in Act II?
What animal does Abigail claim to see Mary Warren’s spirit in?
What does Danforth order be done with the information presented by Proctor?
What character presides over the witch trials?
What is revealed in Act III that results in Elizabeth Proctor’s life being spared for at least one year?
Why do Tituba, Abigail, and Betty start naming people as witches at the end of Act I?
What activity does Proctor do on Sundays that is argued about in court?
Why did Abigail get fired from her work at the Proctor house?
Where is Tituba from?
FREE POINT
Why does Reverend Hale return to Salem in Act IV?
In Act IV, what does Reverend Hale hope that the accused will do?
Why does Giles Corey suspect his wife Martha may be practicing witchcraft?
What happened to Abigail at the end of the play?
Working on Sunday in Puritan Salem is a violation of what law?
What was the fate of Giles Corey?
FREE POINT
After John speaks a confession, what does Danforth insist of him?
Why does Proctor refuse to sign a confession?
Why does Danforth want John to put his confession on paper?\
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His daughter, Betty, is sick
Nothing is physically wrong with Betty // he should seek unnatural reasons for her illness
Tituba
Reverend Hale
Laugh during prayer
To speak to the dead // speak to her dead children
Free point
Arthur Miller
Flying on a broom
Drank blood
Land boundaries
Free point
She was an official of the court // attending the witch trials
A frog
A poppet // a doll
Free point
His wife has been sick // he doesn’t like or agree with Rev. Parris
He is investigating names that were mentioned in the court that day
Confess to witchcraft
Tituba
Massachusetts
Elizabeth Proctor
She thinks Abigail will kill her // she is afraid of Abigail
Free point
She doesn’t want to be near Abigail
A petition of 91 farmers defending Elizabeth, Rebecca Nurse, and Martha Corey.
Reverend Hale
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John has had an affair – with Abigail Williams
Dancing
He won’t have him baptized
A needle
Rebecca Nurse
Free point
The Ten Commandments
A bird
He orders all individuals to be arrested and questioned
Deputy Governor Danforth // Danforth
Elizabeth is pregnant
To save themselves
He plows // tends to his crops
She and John Proctor had an affair
Barbados
Free point
He wants to convince the judges to stop the hangings
Confess and save their lives
She reads unusual books late at night
She stole Parris’ money and ran away
God’s law
He was pressed to death by heavy stones
Free point
Sign a written confession
He doesn’t want to ruin his name
So he can hang it on the church door for all to see