The Crucible Rocketbook Questions

Act One - Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What is event six?

7. What happened in 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts?

8. What type of lives did the Puritans try to live. What did they want to resist?

9. 17th century colonial America was a land of what?

10. Along with the devil, what else did the Puritans believe were real?

11. What is one of the major themes in The Crucible?

12. What does Reverend Parris believe he saw the girls doing?

13. Pop Quiz #1

14. Pop Quiz #2

15. Pop Quiz #3

Act One - Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. How are the Putnams described?

4.The bitterness of the Putnams is an example of what motif?

5. Why does Thomas Putnam hold a grudge?

6. How many babies has Goody Putnam lost?

7. What did Goody Putnam send Ruth to Tituba to do?

8. What does Parris fear a declaration of witchcraft will do?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act One - Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. How old is Abigail Williams? How is she described?

5. What was not allowed in Salem?

6. Why might the girls have been dancing?

7. Who does Abigail lust for?

8. What becomes clear when Abigail wakes up?

9. What does Mary Warren say is the punishment for witchcraft?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act One - Scene 4

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What was lechery? How was it viewed in Puritan society?

6. What does John Proctor represent?

7. Who is the protagonist? How is she described?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act One - Scene 5

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. Which character was held in high esteem? What was she the voice of?

5. Who resents Rebecca Nurse?

6. Who is Parris resentful of?

7. What is it called when church and state are one?

8. What was the Puritan belief?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act One - Scene 6

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. Why would Tituba raise suspicion?

6. What did 17th century Puritans believe about blacks and Indians?

7. What theme does the scene with Tituba represent?

8. How is Tituba viewed as a slave? How is she viewed during the witch hunt?

9. What other character takes on a role reversal?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two - Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. Where does act two take place?

5. What is Elizabeth Proctor unable to do?

6. What is John unwilling to do?

7. Who is he reluctant to expose?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two - Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does the puppet foreshadow?

5. What does Mary feel a sense of? What does she believe she has become?

6. How many people are in jail facing charges of witchcraft?

7. What is Mary's story about Sarah's confession an example of?

8. What is Abigail's plot?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two - Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does Reverend Hale believe his duty is?

5. When John Proctor is unable to remember the commandment forbidding adultery, what is this another example of?

6. What does Hale's door to door search remove him from?

7. What does John Proctor say the reason for the confessions is?

8. What does Hale continue to believe in even after Proctor tells him about Abigail's pretense?

9. What does Hale unwittingly support?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act Two - Scene 4

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What does the puppet become?

5. What is Abigail stabbing herself evidence of?

6. What is Mary Warren terrified of?

7. What will Abigail expose if John Proctor dares say a word?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three - Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What does Francis Nurse swear he has?

4. What does Judge Danforth have little regard for?

5. What is Judge Danforth proud of?

6. Pop Quiz #1

7. Pop Quiz #2

8. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three - Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. How does Danforth once again represent the hypocrisy of the court?

6. What does the court hope to do by revealing Proctor's imperfections?

7. In 1692, courts were not bound by what rule?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three - Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What does Mary Warren finally admit?

7. What is Mary unable to do?

8. What does Abigail re-establish?

9. What does John realize he must do to save Elizabeth?

10. Pop Quiz #1

11. Pop Quiz #2

12. Pop Quiz #3

Act Three - Scene 4

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. Why does Elizabeth lie about John Proctor and Abigail? What does this show exists between John and Elizabeth Proctor?

5. What did John hope to trade his actual guilt for? Want was Elizabeth trying to prevent?

6. What does Mary Warren realize? What is this an example of?

7. What does Proctor say about God?

8. Pop Quiz #1

9. Pop Quiz #2

10. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four - Scene 1

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. How many people have been executed? How many more are scheduled to die?

7. Describe the role reversal of Reverend Hale. Would Hale be considered a dynamic or static character? Why? Explain.

8. What does Reverend Parris hope?

9. What has happened to Tituba and Sarah Good?

10. What do Tituba and Sarah Good now honestly believe?

11. What has happened to the Town of Salem?

12. After Abigail's disappearance, what has she now become in addition to a liar?

13. Pop Quiz #1

14. Pop Quiz #2

15. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four - Scene 2

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What is event five?

6. What does the airing of John's secret allow him to do?

7. What does Elizabeth now have the strength to do?

8. What does John Proctor realize he is not bound by? What is he bound by?

9. Pop Quiz #1

10. Pop Quiz #2

11. Pop Quiz #3

Act Four - Scene 3

1. What is event one?

2. What is event two?

3. What is event three?

4. What is event four?

5. What does Proctor believe his confession would be doing if it were nailed to the church door?

6. Even if telling the truth will result in John Proctor's death, what will he still be able to preserve?

7. Pop Quiz #1

8. Pop Quiz #2

9. Pop Quiz #3

Conclusion

1. The Crucible is about a society crumbling due to the fear of an unknown enemy? Who was the enemy in 1692? What was the enemy in 1950 during the Communist scare? Can you think of current examples of this?

2. Who signed his own death warrant but died with dignity?