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The Crucible Final Exam – November 5, 2012
1. In The Crucible as well as the real village of
Salem, Massachusetts, the form of government
was a:
1. Democracy
2. Theocracy
3. Monarchy
4. Plutocracy
2. Before the play begins, what did Parris catch his
daughter and other girls doing?
1. trying to run away from home
2. Dancing in the forest
3. Reading Catholic books
4. Conducting a black mass in the church
3. Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire Abigail?
1. Abigail was too proud
2. Abigail didn’t work hard enough
3. Abigail dressed like a prostitute
4. Abigail was having an affair with John Proctor
4. What is John Proctor’s chief complaint against
Parris’s sermons?
1. They focus too much on fire and brimstone
2. They are too long
3. They are heretical
4. They are too short
8. In Act II, what does Mary Warren give to Elizabeth
Proctor when she returns from the trials?
1. A cake
2. A bonnet
3. A kiss
4. A little doll
9. What news does Mary Warren bring from Salem?
1. That someone accused Elizabeth of witchcraft
2. That the witch trials have ended
3. That someone accused John Proctor of
witchcraft
4. That Reverend Hale is ill
10. At first, in Act II, Mary Warren enjoys her role in
court because she
1. thinks she has been chosen by god
2. knows she can destroy Elizabeth Proctor
3. likes the power and status she has in the
village
4. slept in a ditch
11. Hale criticizes Proctor for two things. What are
they? Mark both of the correct answers.
1. Not attending church often enough.
2. Not giving money to the church.
3. Not being a part of the church choir.
4. Not having one of his sons baptized.
5. Why is Mrs. Putnam jealous of Rebecca Nurse?
1. Rebecca has a higher salary than she
2. Rebecca is so highly regarded in the
community
3. She thinks that Rebecca is trying to steal her
husband
4. Rebecca has many healthy children and
grandchildren
12. Which commandment does John Proctor forget
when Reverend Hale quizzes him?
1. Thou shalt not kill
2. Thou shalt not commit adultery
3. Honor thy mother and father
4. Thou shalt not covet
6. What is the significance of the golden
candlesticks Parris requested for the church?
1. They show how corrupt and materialistic Rev.
Parris truly is
2. They illustrate Rev. Parris’ devotion to the
church
3. They illustrate the corruption of the town
4. The farmers liked the idea of gold in their
church
13. What does Elizabeth Proctor mean when she
says that Abigail would not accuse her unless
“there be monstrous profit in it”?
1. Abigail is risking her reputation by accusing
her
2. Abigail will be even more respected by
accusing her
3. With Elizabeth out of the way, Abigail will have
Proctor all to herself
4. Elizabeth will gain the town’s respect by
maintaining her innocence
7. What does Mrs. Putnam blame on witchcraft?
1. Her husband’s cancer
2. The death of seven of her babies
3. Bad weather
4. The crop failure
14. Whom does Ezekiel Cheever, the jailor, and
Herrick, the marshal, come to the Proctor house
to arrest?
1. John Proctor
2. Reverend Hale
3. Mary Warren
4. Elizabeth Proctor
15. To what does John Proctor convince Mary Warren
to testify?
1. That the girls are only pretending to be
possessed
2. That Abigail is a witch
3. That Hale is a warlock
4. That he and Abigail slept together
22. In Act III, Giles Corey is arrested because he
refuses to
1. accuse his wife of conjuring spells
2. name the books his wife has been reading
3. leave the court
4. name the person who accused Putnam of
grabbing land
16. When Mary Warren testifies against them, what
do Abigail and the other girls do?
1. They all confess
2. They attack her
3. They claim that Mary is bewitching them
4. They claim that John Proctor has bewitched
Mary
23. What is Giles Corey’s fate?
1. He is hanged
2. He confesses to witchcraft
3. He is crushed with heavy stones
4. He is set free after his wife die.
17. Judge Hawthorn thinks of a test for Mary Warren
to prove that she was pretending to be bewitched.
She does not pass the test because she cannot:
1. Fly
2. Speak a different language
3. Faint
4. Convince Abigail to confess
18. By the end of Act II, Reverend Hale has begun to
worry that
1. perhaps innocent people are being accused
2. The villagers might rebel against his authority
3. Rebecca Nurse did murder Goody Putnam’s
babies
4. Most of the villagers are in league with the
devil
19. What does John Proctor do in a desperate
attempt to convince the court that Abigail is lying?
1. He tells the court about his affair with her
2. He accuses her of witchcraft
3. He tries to kill her
4. He tells the court that Abigail is a man
dressed as a woman
20. Who is brought in to corroborate John Proctor’s
claims about Abigail?
1. Elizabeth Proctor
2. Rebecca Nurse
3. Mary Warren
4. Parris
21. What does Elizabeth do when called upon to
testify?
1. Keeps silent
2. Tells a lie
3. Tells the truth
4. Kills herself
24. In Act IV, Rev. Parris says “You cannot hang this
sort. There is danger for me.” What does he
mean?
1. He fears for his life if a respected man is
hanged
2. He wishes to tear down the court
3. He wants to have revenge against Abigail
4. He is convinced that Proctor is innocent
25. In Act IV, why does Danforth refuse to postpone
the hangings?
1. He fears the people will riot if the executions
don’t take place
2. He refuses to accept any suggestions from
Hale
3. It might look as if he has wrongly executed
innocent people
4. He doubts the authority of the church
26. When John Proctor is facing death, what does
Reverend Hale urge him to do?
1. Kill himself
2. Blame someone else
3. Confess, even though he is innocent
4. Refuse to confess
27. What is the significance of Governor Danforth’s
support for Proctor’s confession?
1. It shows that Danforth knows that there are no
witches in Salem
2. It shows that Danforth’s interest is in
maintaining the reputation of the court and not
in actual justice
3. It shows that Danforth has turned against
Putnam and Parris
4. It shows that Danforth is kind and
understanding
28. Why does Proctor retract his confession?
1. Because the officials demand that he sign his
name to it
2. Because Hale asks him to
3. Because new evidence has come to light
4. Because Abigail confesses
29. What does Abigail do at the end of the play?
1. She kills herself
2. She flees from Salem, after robbing her uncle
3. She also is hanged
4. She is revealed as a witch
30. What ultimately happens to John Proctor?
1. He is freed
2. He kills himself
3. He escapes from prison and runs away with
Abigail
4. He is hanged
31. What did John Proctor tear up?
1. his eviction notice
2. his confession
3. his wife’s death warrant
4. his wedding certificate
32. Why do many of the accused admit to witchcraft?
1. By admitting to witchcraft they can accuse
others of the same crime
2. They are forced to admitting to witchcraft
under duress and torture
3. They are actually witches
4. By admitting to witchcraft they guarantee that
they will not be executed
33. In Act IV, one can infer that Abigail has left Salem
because she
1. cannot bear to see Proctor hanged
2. was asked to leave by Parris
3. has gone to Andover for the witch trials there
4. fear the villagers will turn on her
For questions 34 – 41, match the literary device with its representative quote from The
Crucible using the below answers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1&2, 1&3, 1&4)
1. Symbolism
2. Irony
3. Direct Characterization
4. Indirect Characterization
5. Simile
1&2 Exposition
1&3 Foreshadowing
1&4 Personification
34. “Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it
necessary to deny any other sect its freedom.”
35. Proctor says: “Tell them I confessed myself: say Proctor broke to his knees and wept like a woman.”
36. Abigail says: “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will
come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.”
37. “As the curtain rises, the room is empty, but for sunlight pouring through two high windows in the back
wall. The room is solemn, even forbidding.”
38. Rebecca Nurse says: “Mr. Parris, I think you’d best send Reverend Hale back as soon as he come. This
will set us all to arguin’ again in the society, and we thought to have peace this year.”
39. “Abigail Williams, seventeen, enters – a strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for
dissembling.”
40. Cheever says: “Tis hard proof! I find here a poppet Goody Proctor keeps. I have found it, sir. And in the
belly of the poppet a needle’s stuck.”
41. Proctor says: “Now Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all our pretense is ripped away.”
For Questions 42 through 50 fill in the blank with the most appropriate listed literary device
completing the explanations of the author’s use of literary devices in The Crucible:
1. Allegory
2. Setting
3. Motif
4. Point of View
5. Genre
1&2 Foil
1&3 Theme
1&4 Conflict
1&5 Climax
42. The characters are continuously asked to sign their names or give up someone’s name. The use of
names to stand for a person’s integrity throughout the play is called a ____________.
43. The Crucible is a play, therefore the ______________ is categorized as drama.
44. The events in The Crucible closely mirror the events happening in America in the 1940s and 1950’s
surrounding “McCarthyism” and the Red Scare. The author wrote this play to stand as an ______________.
45. The Crucible takes place during the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts in the late 17th century, a
time where hysteria and fear led to mass accusations and death. This is called the ___________________.
46. At the end of the play, John Proctor refuses to sign a false confession and give up his name. This allows
the reader to understand one of the major ____________ of the novel; that a person’s integrity and reputation
is worth dying for.
47. The author tells the story from the third-person perspective where he uses third-person pronouns (he, she)
to refer to the characters. This is also called the third-person ______________________.
48. Abigail Williams and John Proctor are characters that present a contrast to one another. Their characters
represent a _______________.
49. Salem’s ruling court forces citizens to deny their consciences and perjure themselves (lie to the court) in
order to save themselves. This represents the individual versus society and is one of the main __________ of
the play.
50. The _____________ of the play occurs when John Proctor decides it is more important to tell the truth
than to save his life with a lie. He tears up his false confession to witchcraft and gives himself over for
hanging.