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1. What does the word crucible mean?

2. Crucible comes from the Latin word for ___________________________.
3. What parallel did we see between Arthur Millers life and The Crucible?
4. What are the characteristics of Puritan Plain Style writing?
a.
b.
c.

5. What is an apostrophe (not the punctuation)?
6. What is dramatic exposition?
7. What is a logical fallacy?
8. What conflicts do we see between Mrs. Putnam and Rebecca Nurse, and on a broader level, the Putnams and
Nurses? (Think of Proctor, Putnam, and Nurse here)


9. Abigail has an endless capacity for dissembling which means what?
10. What sin is Parris guilty of? How do you know? (there are multiple occasions)
11. What sin runs in the Putnam family?
12. What two incidences are there in ACT ONE that start the hysteria in the town of Salem and causes all the people
to cry witchraft?

13. What does licentious mean?
14. Old Giles must be spoken for, if only because his fate was to be so remarkable and so different from that of all
the others. What is this quote from ACT ONE significant?

15. In ACT TWO, Proctor is afraid of offending Elizabeths feelings after doing what?
16. What gift does Mary Warren give Goody Proctor?
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17. What does base mean?
18. What is ironic about the commandment Proctor forgets?
19. List the ten commandments:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
20. Look at the following quotes:
Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel.
Pontius Pilate! God will not let you wash your hands of this!
I think not, or you should surely know that Cain were an upright man, and yet he did kill Abel
Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias.
You are combined with anti-Christ, are you not?
These quotes are all examples of what literary term? What is the definition of this literary term?
21. The following quotes have the common theme of: ____________________________________
She is blackening my name in the village!
We vote by name in this society, not by acreage
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A man will not cast away his good name
My name, he want my name.
God has seen my name on this
I have given you my soul; leave me my name

22. Hale tries to get Elizabeth to convince Proctor to confess. He says that God damns a _________ less than he
that throws his life away for ___________.

23. What is ironic about the court system in Salem compared to what we know it to be? Francis Nurse says in ACT
THREE, We are desperate, sir; we come here three days now and cannot be heard. Use this quote to help you
with your answer.

24. What is a deposition?
25. Why is Mary Warrens deposition so important to Proctor, Francis, and Giles?
26. What is dialogue?
27. What are stage directions?
28. What is dramatic irony?
29. What is verbal irony?
30. How does a person become a lecher/adulterer?
31. Proctor confessed his sins as a lecher. What does Elizabeth do when questioned about Proctors crime?
32. What happened to Giles Correy?
33. What do we learn happened to Abigail in ACT FOUR?
34. After Proctor confesses, what does Danforth insist he needs to do in order to be cleared of all crimes and saved
from the gallows?

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Ministers and Judges
The Accused
Court Witnesses
Court Opponents
Reverend Parris Betty Tituba Abigail Williams Susanna Walcott Mrs. Putnam
Mr. Putnam Francis Proctor Mary Warren Mercy Lewis Giles Correy
Rebecca Nurse Cheever Herrick Martha Correy Elizabeth Proctor Hathorne
Danforth Sarah Good Hopkins
Court Officers
Place the characters next to the appropriate boxes in the appropriate sections on where they fit best by the end of Act 4.
Use the character bank below to help you.