"The Crucible" Act I Quotes

Who said the following: "... I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not opened with me. What did you do with her in the forest?"

• Rev. Parris

• Rev. Hale

• John Proctor

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "No one was naked! You mistake yourself, uncle!"

• Betty

• Abby

• Mercy

• Mary

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "... I have laid seven babies un-baptized in the earth. Believe me, sir, you never saw more hearty babies born, And yet, each would wither in my arms the very night of their birth. I have spoke nothin’, but my heart has clamored intimations."

• Rebecca Nurse

• Ann Putnam

• Abby

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "Have you tried beatin’ her? I gave Ruth a good one and it waked her for a minute. Here, let me have her"

• Abby

• Mercy

• Mary

• Betty

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "Now look you. All of you. We danced. And Tituba conjured Ruth Putnam’s dead sisters. And that is all. And mark this. 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!"

• Abby

• Betty

• Mary

• Mercy

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "Abby, you’ll put it out of mind. I’ll not be comin’ for you more."

• Rev. Parris

• Rev. Hale

• Thomas Putnam

• John Proctor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? " I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I come near! Or did I dream that? It’s she put me out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now!"

• Mercy

• Betty

• Mary

• Abby

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "I think she’ll wake in time. Pray calm your-selves. 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 bowlegged keeping up with their mischief."

• Ann Putnam

• Susanna

• Rebecca Nurse

• Abby

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "I’ve heard you to be a sensible man, Mr. Hale. I hope you’ll leave some of it in Salem."

• Giles

• Thomas Putnam

• John Proctor

• Rev. Parris

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Who is the speaker? "I have waked at night many a time and found her in a corner, readin’ of a book. Now what do you make of that?"

• John Proctor

• Giles Corey

• Rev. Parris

• Thomas Putnam

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3