The Crucible Act 1

Who said...

“I have laid seven babies unbaptized 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. ---

You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one? There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!” (17).

• Reverend Parris

• Abigail Willliams

• Mary Warren

• Goody Ann Putnam

Rebecca Nurse was

• a slave from Barbados
• a respected elder who thinks the girls are in a “silly season” 
• a mother who sent her daughter to conjure dead babies 
• an orphan who lives with her uncle

Who said...

“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”

• Reverend Parris

• Rebecca Nurse

• Abigail Williams

• Ann Putnam

Reverend John Hale was

• a farmer who had an affair
• A respected elder who thinks the girls are in a “silly season” 
• an intellectual academic who is an expert on witchcraft 
• a cranky, old man

What have Thomas Putnam and John Proctor argued over in the past?

• land
• religion
• money
• wives

Who said...

“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 bowlegged keeping up with their mischief”

• Ann Putnam

• Rebecca Nurse

• Mary Warren

• Abigail Williams

Where and when does the play take place?

• Salem, 1792
• Salem, 1692
• Boston, 1692
• Boston, 1695

Who wrote The Crucible?

• John Steinbeck

• Edgar Allan Poe

• John Proctor

• Arthur Miller