Name: ______Block: ______
Your mission is to uncover the truth!! Read the directions carefully and use the resources in the library to answer the following questions.
Part I: The Literature
1. What is an allegory?
2. What is a crucible? Write definition.
3. Why did Miller call his play The Crucible?
4. What the Miller’s reason for writing The Crucible?
5. What crime was Arthur Miller convicted of, that was later thrown out by the Supreme Court?
6. Define “witch hunt.”
7. How does Miller use the Salem witch trials to comment on the activities of the HUAC?
Part II: The Puritans
8. List three ways the Puritans would identify a witch.
9. List two ways witches were “eliminated” from the Puritan community.
10. The hunt for witches throughout the centuries has been based on a passage in the Bible from the book of ______. The passage says “thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”
11. State the date the witch hunt began in Salem ______and when it ended ______.
12. How many people were put to death during the Salem Witch Trials? ______
13. Which man did not die by hanging? ______How did he die? ______
14. What finally put an end to the witch hunts?
15. List 3 ways the play differs from history
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16. Go to http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/ and play through the interactive website. What was the outcome?
Part III: Communism in the 1950’s
17. Who was Joe McCarthy and how/why did he start what became known as McCarthyism?
18. Define: Communism ______
19. What is HUAC and what did it set out to do in the 1940’s and 1950’s?
20. What happened to those people accused by HUAC and Senator McCarthy?
21. Define McCarthyism.
Part IV: Modern Day Witch Hunts
22. Find an article published in the past year that describes a modern day witch hunt. Summarize the hunt and give the article link.