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In Search of History: The Salem Witch Trials
The History Channel Video Presentation
View the presentation and answer the questions that follow:
1. List three of the ways that witches were identified.
2. Name the book that defined a witch.
3. T or F Witchcraft was considered treason.
4. T or F Witchcraft was not central to Puritan beliefs.
5. The first witch hunt was located where?
6. How many people resided in Salem when the witch hunts began?
7. Why did the Puritans live in fear of the woods?
8. T or F Puritans believed that everyone’s fate was predetermined.
9. How many cases of witch craft were there in 1692?
10. How old were Elizabeth and Abigail?
11. Who were they left in the care of, and what was she?
12. What was the age range of the girls who participated in Tituba’s game?
13. T or F Puritan women were expected to be silent.
14. T or F A man was more likely to practice witch craft then women.
15. How do the girls behave?
16. T or F Puritan’s believe that witches could tempt or seduce people to become witches.
17. Why was Sarah Osborne a marked woman?
18. What is spectral evidence?
19. Does Tituba deny the witch craft? Why?
20. What does the accusation of Rebecca Nurse do the community of Salem?
21. What caused people to become suspected of witchcraft?
22. Who was the first person hanged?
23. What was the one sure way to be cleared of the charges?
24. How was Giles Corey killed and why?
25. How did people stand to gain from the accusations?
26. Which of the accusers apologizes for her false accusations?
27. Who wrote the apology for what occurred in Salem?