Crucible

What is the inciting incident?

• Proctor ripping up his confession

• Tituba admitting to teaching the girls witchcraft

• Parris finding the girls in the forest

• Abigail talking with John privately

What character said "[...] and still an everlasting funeral marches 'round your heart."

• Reverend Parris

• Reverend Hale

• Abigail

• John Proctor

Which of these characters is NOT accused of witchcraft?

• Abigail

• Proctor

• Giles

• Martha Corey

Why did John stop going to church?

• Parris talks too much

• Parris was practicing witchcraft

• Parris is too greedy

• John has to work on his farm

Who does Goody Putnam blame for the death of her children?

• Tituba

• Goody Nurse

• Measles

• Abigail

What is the main conflict in the play?

• Man vs. Wild

• Man vs. Man

• Man vs. Self

• Man vs. Society

What is the falling action?

• Mary Warren accusing Proctor

• Mary Warren giving Elizabeth the doll

• Abigail confessing to witchcraft

• Abigail running away to Barbados

How are Parris and Abigail related?

• Husband and wife

• Uncle and niece

• Father and daughter

• Brother and sister

Why doesn't Giles give up the name of who accused Putnam?

• He wants to end the accusations and hysteria

• He is stubborn

• He is lying

• He was the one who accused Putnam

In Act IV of The Crucible, why does Parris urge Elizabeth to go to her husband, who is being taken off to execution?

• so that she can show that she believes the death sentence is just

• so that she can make a last appeal to the mercy of the judges

• so that she can try once more to persuade him to confess

• so that she can comfort him in his final moments