Name___________________________ The Crucible: Act I
1. What is Betty’s condition as the play opens?
2. Why can’t Dr. Griggs prescribe medicine or special care for her?
3. Why does Reverend Parris ask Abigail to keep Susanna’s report about Dr. Griggs’s conclusions a secret?
4. Why does Reverend Parris worry about revealing what he saw in the forest?
5. What reason does Abigail give Parris for being dismissed from the Proctors’ service?
6. Why does Reverend Parris think he is being coerced to identify witchcraft in his parish?
7. Why doesn’t he wish to do this?
8. Why did Ann Putnam send her daughter Ruth to Tituba?
9. What does this suggest about Goody Putnam?
10. What is the real reason that Abilgail was dismissed from the Proctors’ service?
11. How does Proctor treat Abigail after she declares her love for him?
12. Do you think Abigail has reason to believe that he still loves her?
13. What quarrels do the Putnams have with the Nurses, the Coreys, and the Proctors?
14. In what way might accusations of witchcraft work in the Putnams’ favor?
15. Why is Proctor critical of Reverend Parris?
16. Why has Reverend Hale been summoned to Salem?
17. How does he feel about his work?
18. Why does Abigail accuse Tituba of witchcraft?
19. Why does Tituba in turn accuse Goody Good and Goody Osburn of witchcraft?
20. To what do Abigail and Betty confess?
21. What reasons might they have for naming others?