The Crucible
1. What kind of government does
Salem have in The Crucible ?
Democracy
Theocracy
Monarchy
Kleptocracy
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2. What is Parris’s position in
Salem?
Bailiff
Judge
Governor
Minister
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3. Before the play begins,
what did Parris catch his
daughter and other girls
doing?
Dancing in the forest
Trying to run away from home
Reading Catholic tracts
Conducting a black mass in the
church
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4. Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire
Abigail?
Abigail was too proud
Abigail was having an affair with
John Proctor
Abigail didn’t work hard enough
Abigail dressed like a prostitute
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5. As the play opens, whom
has Parris asked to come to
Salem?
Judge Danforth
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Reverend Hale
John Proctor
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6. What is John Proctor’s
chief complaint against
Parris’s
They focus toosermons?
much on fire and
brimstone
They are too long
They are heretical
They are too short
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7. What does Mrs. Putnam
blame on witchcraft?
Her husband’s cancer
Bad weather
Raids by natives
The death of seven of her
children in infancy
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8. Who is the first person that
Abigail claims practiced
witchcraft?
John Proctor
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Reverend Hale
Mary Warren
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9. In Act II, what does Mary
Warren give to Elizabeth Proctor
when she returns home ?
A cake
A bonnet
A little doll
A kiss
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10. What news does Mary
Warren bring from Salem?
That the witch trials have ended
That someone accused John
Proctor of witchcraft
That Reverend Hale is ill
That someone accused Elizabeth
of witchcraft
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11. Which commandment
does John Proctor forget
when Reverend Hale quizzes
him?
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not commit adultery
Honor thy mother and father
Thou shalt not covet
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12. Whom do Ezekiel Cheever
and Herrick, the marshal, come
to the Proctor home to arrest ?
John Proctor
Reverend Hale
Elizabeth Proctor
Mary Warren
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13. To what does John
Proctor convince Mary
Warren
to
testify?
That the girls are only pretending
to be possessed
That Abigail is a witch
That Hale is a warlock
That he and Abigail slept
together
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14. Who is in charge of the
court?
Giles Corey
Danforth
Hale
Parris
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15. Why will Elizabeth not be
hanged if she is found guilty?
Because she is a woman
Because the Puritans do not
allow capital punishment
Because John Proctor is well
respected
Because she is pregnant
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16. On what charge is Giles
Corey arrested?
Witchcraft
Contempt of court
Murder
Slander
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17. When Mary Warren
testifies against them, what
do Abigail and her troop of
They all confess
girls
do?
They attack her
They claim that Mary is
bewitching them
They claim that John Proctor has
bewitched Mary
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18. What does John Proctor do,
in a desperate attempt to foil
Abigail?
He accuses her of witchcraft
He tells the court about his affair
with her
He tries to kill
He tells the court that Abigail is a
man dressed as a woman
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19. Who is brought in to
corroborate John Proctor’s
claims about Abigail?
Rebecca Nurse
Mary Warren
Parris
Elizabeth Proctor
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20. What does Elizabeth do
when called upon to testify?
Keeps silent
Tells a lie
Tells the truth
Kills herself
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21. What does the court do
with John Proctor?
It frees him and sends him home
It orders him stoned to death
It arrests and tries him for
witchcraft
It exiles him to Maine
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22. When John Proctor is
facing death, what does Hale
urge
him
to
do?
Confess, even though he is
innocent
Kill himself
Blame someone else
Refuse to confess
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23. Why does Proctor retract
his confession?
Because Hale asks him to
Because new evidence has
come to light
Because the officials demand
that he sign his name to it
Because Abigail confesses
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24. What does Abigail do at
the end of the play?
She kills herself
She flees Salem, after robbing
her uncle
She is hanged
She is revealed as a witch
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25. What ultimately
happens to John
Proctor?
He is freed
He is hanged
He kills himself
He escapes from prison and flees to Virginia
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