The Crucible Test Review

The Crucible Test Review

1. What kind of government doesSalemhave inThe Crucible?

1. What is Parris’ position inSalem?

1. Before the play begins, what did Parris catch his daughter and other girls doing?

1. Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire Abigail?

1. As the play opens, whom has Parris asked to come toSalem?

1. What is John Proctor’s chief complaint against Parris’s sermons?

1. What does Mrs. Putnam blame on witchcraft?

1. Who is the first person that Abigail claims practiced witchcraft?

1. In Act II, what does Mary Warren give to Elizabeth Proctor when she returns from the trials?

1. What news does Mary Warren bring fromSalem?

1. Which commandment does John Proctor forget when Reverend Hale quizzes him?

1. Whom do Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick, the marshal, come to the Proctor house to arrest?

1. To what does John Proctor convince Mary Warren to testify?

1. Who is in charge of the court?

1. Why willElizabethnot be hanged if she is found guilty?

1. On what charge is Giles Corey arrested?

1. When Mary Warren testifies against them, what do Abigail and her troop of girls do?

1. What does John Proctor do, in a desperate attempt to foil Abigail?

1. Who is brought in to corroborate John Proctor’s claims about Abigail?

1. What doesElizabethdo when called upon to testify?

1. What does the court do with John Proctor?

1. What is Giles’ fate?

1. When John Proctor is facing death, what does Hale urge him to do?

1. Why does Proctor retract his confession?

1. What does Abigail do at the end of the play?

1. What ultimately happens to John Proctor?

1. Who is one of the judges?

1. Who lead the girls in the forest with their dancing?

1. Who did Abigail drink a blood charm for?

1. What is the significance of the golden candlesticks?

1. Why did Giles Coreyneither admit ordeny being a witch?

1. What were Giles Corey’s last words?

1. What did John Proctor tear up?

1. Why does Abigail Williams live with Reverend Parris?

1. In the end, why does Reverend Parris wish to spare Proctor?

1. Why do many of the accused admit to witchcraft?

1. Which character in the play is compared to Pontius Pilate?

1. What is the significance aboutDanforth’ssupport for Proctor’s confession?

1. Why is Mrs. Putnam jealous of Rebecca Nurse?

1. What doesElizabethlie about to the court?

1. In Act I,Titubamost likely confessed to meeting with the devil because she

1. In Act III, Giles Corey is arrested because he refuses to

1. In Act IV, one can infer that Abigail and Mercy have leftSalembecause they

1. In Act IV, what can be concluded from the references made aboutAndover?

1. By the end of Act II, Reverend Hale has begun to worry that

1. In Act IV, why doesDanforthrefuse to postpone the hangings?

1. Reverend Parris is most concerned with

1. At first, in Act II, Mary Warren enjoys her role in court because she

1. In Act I, one can infer that the citizens ofSalemthought dancing was

1. Parris fears the villagers will be against the court as he tellsDanforthandHathorneabout: