Power Point Presentation adapted from Alleghany County Public Schools, Covington, Virginia

www.alleghany.k12.va.us/DGB_ITRT/PP%20Presentations/English/Multiple%20Choice%20Games_Eng/Crucible.ppt

1. What kind of government does Salem have in The Crucible

? Democracy

Theocracy

Monarchy

Kleptocracy

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2. What is Parris’s position in Salem?

Bailiff

Minister

Governor

Judge

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3. Before the play begins, what did Parris catch his daughter and other girls

doing?

Trying to run away from home

Dancing in the forest

Reading Catholic tracts

Conducting a black mass in the church

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4. Why did Elizabeth Proctor fire Abigail?

Abigail was too proud

Abigail was having an affair with John Proctor

Abigail didn’t work hard enough

Abigail dressed like a prostitute

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5. As the play opens, whom has Parris asked to come to

Salem? Judge Danforth

Reverend Hale

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John Proctor

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6. What is John Proctor’s chief complaint against

Parris’s sermons?

They are too long

They focus too much on fire and brimstone

They are heretical

They are too short

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7. What does Mrs. Putnam blame on witchcraft?

Her husband’s cancer

The death of seven of her children in infancy

Raids by natives

Bad weather

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8. Who is the first person that Abigail claims practiced

witchcraft?

John Proctor

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Reverend Hale

Mary Warren

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9. In Act II, what does Mary Warren give to Elizabeth Proctor

when she returns home ?A cake

A little doll

A bonnet

A kiss

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10. What news does Mary Warren bring from Salem?

That the witch trials have ended

That someone accused Elizabeth of witchcraft

That Reverend Hale is ill

That someone accused John Proctor of witchcraft

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11. Which commandment does John Proctor forget

when Reverend Hale quizzes him?

Thou shalt not kill

Thou shalt not commit adultery

Honor thy mother and father

Thou shalt not covet

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12. Whom do Ezekiel Cheever and Herrick, the marshal, come to the Proctor home to arrest ?

John Proctor

Elizabeth Proctor

Reverend Hale

Mary Warren

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13. To what does John Proctor convince Mary

Warren to testify?

That Abigail is a witch

That the girls are only pretending to be possessed

That Hale is a warlock

That he and Abigail slept together

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14. Who is in charge of the court? Giles Corey

Danforth

Hale

Parris

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15. Why will Elizabeth not be hanged if she is found guilty?

Because she is a woman

Because she is pregnant

Because John Proctor is well respected

Because the Puritans do not allow capital punishment

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16. On what charge is Giles Corey arrested?

Witchcraft

Contempt of court

Murder

Slander

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17. When Mary Warren testifies against them, what do Abigail and her troop of

girls do? They all confess

They claim that Mary is bewitching them

They attack her

They claim that John Proctor has bewitched Mary

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18. What does John Proctor do, in a desperate attempt to foil

Abigail? He accuses her of witchcraft

He tells the court about his affair with her

He tries to kill

He tells the court that Abigail is a man dressed as a woman

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19. Who is brought in to corroborate John Proctor’s

claims about Abigail?

Rebecca Nurse

Elizabeth Proctor

Parris

Mary Warren

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20. What does Elizabeth do when called upon to testify?

Keeps silent

Tells a lie

Tells the truth

Kills herself

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21. What does the court do with John Proctor?

It frees him and sends him home

It arrests and tries him for witchcraft

It orders him stoned to death

It exiles him to Maine

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22. When John Proctor is facing death, what does Hale

urge him to do?

Kill himself

Confess, even though he is innocent

Blame someone else

Refuse to confess

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23. Why does Proctor retract his confession?

Because Hale asks him to

Because new evidence has come to light

Because the officials demand that he sign his name to it

Because Abigail confesses

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

She kills herself

She flees Salem, after robbing her uncle

She is hanged

She is revealed as a witch

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25. What ultimately happens to John

Proctor?

He is freed

He is hanged

He kills himself

He escapes from prison and flees to Virginia

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