The Crucible Test Review Sheet – Complete this review sheet for +10 bonus pts. on the test.
1. Who wrote The Crucible?
2. When does the play take place?
3. What is the setting?
4. What religion are the townspeople?
5. Describe Tituba
6. Why is Parris angry with Abigail in Act I?
7. What did Parris see when he surprised the girls in the forest?
8. How is Abigail portrayed as evil in Act I?
9. Why does Titutba confess to being a witch?
10. Describe the Proctor’s marriage.
11. Why has Proctor not baptized his youngest son?
12. Why does Abigail charge witchery on Elizabeth?
13. What are Proctor’s criticisms against Parris?
14. Why is Cheever convinced that Elizabeth is a witch in Act II?
15. Why is Proctor’s statement about Elizabeth “that woman will never lie” ironic?
16. Who are the two judges?
17. Who begins to doubt the court in Act III?
18. What is the deal Danforth tries to make with Proctor in Act III?
19. What does Giles Corey accuse Thomas Putnam of?
20. What does Judge Hawthorne ask of Mary Warren that she cannot do?
21. What do the girls accuse Mary Warren of doing in Act III?
22. Who is the first person to charge witchcraft on John Proctor?
23. What does Elizabeth blame herself for in regards to her marriage?
24. Why is Elizabeth not hanged?
25. At the end of the play, what is Hale’s attitude towards the trials?
26. Why does Hale return to the jail in Act IV?
27. What does Elizabeth say about Proctor as he goes to his death?
28. What news does Parris give the court in Act IV?
29. What happens to Giles Corey?
30. What happens to Abigail at the end of the play?
31. What does Elizabeth mean when she says she “kept a cold house”?
32. What is the one thing that Proctor cannot do in Act IV?
Identify the speaker of the following quotes:
1. “Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in this life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies!
Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have
given you my soul; leave me my name!”
2. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in
the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I
can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents’ heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some
reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!”
3. “We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone,
and I must tell you that I shall not proceed unless you are prepared to believe me if I should find no bruise
of hell upon her.”
4. “He say Parris must be kill! Mr. Parris no goodly man, Mr Parris mean man and no gentle man, and he bid
me rise out of my bed and cut your throat! But I tell him ‘No! I don’t hate that man. I don’t want to kill that
man.’”
5. “I say- I say- God is dead!”
6. “I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a
grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the
devil bow-legged keeping up with their mischief.”
7. “I - I cannot tell you how, but I did. I – I heard the other girls screaming, and you, Your Honor, you seemed
to believe them, and I – It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried sprits,
spirits, and I – I promise you, Mr. Danforth, I only though I saw them but I did not.”
8. “No, old man, you have not hurt these people if they are of good conscience. But you must understand, sir,
that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a
sharp time, now, a precise time- we no longer live in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good
and befuddled the world. Now, by God’s grace, the shining sun is up, and them that fear not light will surely
praise it.”
TRUE/FALSE
1. At the end of the play, John Proctor will hang.
2. Elizabeth Proctor has never, ever told a lie in her life.
3. Judge Danforth keeps the witch trials going due to the fact that he has already killed 12 people.
4. John Proctor’s last son has not been baptized.
5. In the forest, Parris saw Abigail drink blood.
6. Reverend Parris used to work in Barbados.
7. Putnam first mentions Goody Good and Goody Osburn as possible witches, and Tituba claims she saw
these two with the Devil at the end of Act I.
8. All of the girls are worried that Susana Walcott is going to tell the truth of what happened in the forest, but
Abigail threatens them to keep quiet or she will shoot them.
9. Goody Proctor regularly kept poppets since childhood.
10. Mercy Lewis works for the Proctors, but is also an official of the court.
11. All of the characters in The Crucible are real people from history.
12. Salem is a small town in the state of Pennsylvania.
13. The judges think that Abigail is a young, innocent girl, and they see her as the victim in the witch trials.
14. John, Giles, and Francis bring a deposition that 91 people have signed.
15. Giles Corey feels a tremendous amount of personal guilt about his wife being condemned as a witch.
16. A crucible is a severe test or trial, and it is also a device for melting materials.
17. Judge Danforth believes that anyone who is afraid of the court must be guilty of something.
18. John Proctor never tells anyone that he committed adultery with Abigail.
19. Act IV takes place in a courthouse one week after the end of Act III.
20. In Andover, the people rebelled against the court and threw it out of the town.
21. On the morning of Act IV, John Proctor and Rebecca Nurse are all scheduled to die at sunrise.