Mr. Whitehead / Ms. Givner

Study Guide – The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Word Box

execution / hysteria / Mary Warren / Sarah Good / her repentance / divine
Proctor /

Elizabeth

/ dishonest / Honor / Rebecca Nurse / praise
court / Tituba / poppet / cremated / Military tribunal / fiction
hysterical
violence / dancing / Parris / the McCarthy Era / her accusation of Elizabeth / accusing
life / confess / Church / sin / hung / Salem,Mass.
Spirits / reverse / state / Hale / Abigail / Civilization
the devil / Woodstock, NY / critical / honest / bigotry / justice

Fill in each blank with the correct choice from the box.

1.  In Act 1, Proctor feels that ------is judging him and that she cannot forget

------.

2.  Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a social commentary on ------.

3.  If you ------that you have a pact with ------, then you can go free.

4.  ------comes to Proctor and tells him that Elizabeth’s name is mentioned in the

------.

5.  Proctor finds it hard to believe that a pious woman like ------is mentioned in the court.

6.  By identifying witches, ------had a role in their death and possible

------.

7.  In a theocracy, the entire world becomes defined by the ------.

8.  Miller is ------of contemporary American------.

9.  The Crucible is an example of ------against those who are different.

10.  The Crucible takes place in ------.

11.  The Puritans believed it was a ------to conjure ------

12.  Proctor’s eyes were opened to the true nature of Abigail by ------.

13.  Mary Warren gives Elizabeth a ------.

14.  Abigail affects the mood of the court with ------.

15.  When Parris comes upon the girls in the woods they are------.

16.  The accused that do not confess are ------.

17.  Who says, “ I have sins of my own to count. It needs a cold wife to prompt lechery.”------.

18.  Proctor tries to preserve his ------at the end of the play.

19.  ------has been unfaithful to his wife.

20.  Proctor ties to ------the accusations against his wife.

21.  Proctor can only be saved by a ------confession.

Write T or F next to each statement.

1.  The Crucible was written with historical accuracy.

2.  Elizabeth tells John to go to Salem to tell them that the witch-hunt is a fraud.

3.  John proctor is an accountant and wealthy landowner.

4.  Thomas Putnam had greed for land.

5.  Elizabeth rejects Hale’s argument that life at any price is God’s most precious gift.

6.  During the play the character that changes and grows the most is Parris.

7.  Proctor threatens to expose Abigail as a whore.

8.  Proctor confesses his adultery in Act 3.

9.  Tituba comes from the island of Crete.

10.  At the end of the play Abigail seems to have lost her senses.