Act I Quote Worksheet
The Crucible
Name: _____________________________________ Date: _____________Act
One:
Identify the speaker, to
whom they are speaking, and the significance of each quotation (to character, plot, our understanding).
1. "Speak nothing of it in the village Susanna" (9)
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some terrible night and I will bring a pointy
reckoning that will shudder you.”
7. "Give me a word, John. A soft word” (22).
2. "I would never hurt Betty. I love her dearly"
(10).
8. "I look for John Proctor that took me from my
sleep and put knowledge in my heart.”
3. "There is a faction that is sworn to drive me
from my pulpit" (10).
9. "We vote by name in this society, not by
acreage" (28).
4. "There be no blush about my name" (12)
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5. "... I have laid seven babies unbaptized in the
earth" (15).
10. "There is either obedience or the church will
burn like Hell is burning!”
11. “I mean it solemnly, Rebecca. I like not the
smell of this “authority.”
6.
Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of
a word, and I will come to you in the black of
12. "They are weighted with authority" (36).
15. "You are God's instrument put in our hands to
discover the devil's agents among us” (46).
13. "I go to God for you, sir" (39).
16. “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 your throat!”
14. "She made me do it! She made Betty do it!"
(43)