Puritan Test

Question 1

What happened in the winter of 1691?

Answer 1

it got really cold

Question 2

Why did the Puritans believe the winter of 1691 was cold?

Answer 2

God was punishing them

Question 3

Who lanched witches in the air?

Answer 3

Germany

Question 4

Who did hte people pick as witches?

Answer 4

weakest person

Question 5

What characteristics would people use to call someone a witch?

Answer 5

Cant be too good, smart, outspoken, or pretty

Question 6

What was the devil’s different forms?

Answer 6

Monkey Man
Rooster
Fast moving turtle

Question 7

What did the devil look like when he is a man?

Answer 7

tall with black and red

Question 8

How old was the dividing law (was an adult)?

Answer 8

14

Question 9

A majority of girls that accused the withes were mostly what?

Answer 9

fatherless

Question 10

If youre a doctor that cannot fix people, who do you blame?

Answer 10

witchcraft

Question 11

What did Cotton Mather write?

Answer 11

Wonders of the Invisible World

wrote about the witch trials

Question 12

What did people do after big cases?

Answer 12

write books over them

Question 13

What did Cotton Mather study?

Answer 13

Germs and when he took it to the medical board, they thought he was crazy

Question 14

Why was Cotton believing in germs irony?

Answer 14

He believed in witches before germs

Question 15

What was Cotton Mather charged with?

Answer 15

craziness and was beaten

Question 16

Who wrote the Scarlet letter?

Answer 16

Hawthorne

Question 17

Where was Hawthorne from?

Answer 17

Salem

Question 18

Why did Hawthorne write about in Scarlett?

Answer 18

he found out his ancestor was a judge

Question 19

Where did he spend 12 years perfecting his writing?

Answer 19

his moms house

Question 20

Who was Hawthorne friends with?

Answer 20

transcenital people (spiritual purity through nature)

Question 21

Who was Hawthorne hailed by?

Answer 21

the author of Moby Dick

Question 22

When was Hawthorne highly conconized?

Answer 22

during his life

Question 23

What was Hawthorne’s main characteristic?

Answer 23

dramatic

Question 24

What was Hawthorne’s dominite view?

Answer 24

evil dominate view of the war

Question 25

When was the Salem witch trials?

Answer 25

1692

Question 26

When was the Scarlett letter written?

Answer 26

1850

Question 27

When was the Crucible written?

Answer 27

1951

Question 28

Who wrote the Crucible?

Answer 28

Miller

Question 29

What was the Scarlett Letter's plot?

Answer 29

A young women comes to America 2 years before her husband. She has an affair with the minister and has his baby. She must wear an A on her clothes for adultry. One day when she is being shamed her husband shows up. He remains annonomous and becomes a doctor since he is educated. He becomes friends with the minister and makes him feel guilty for what he did until he died. The wife and daughter leave and when the wife dies, she is buried next to the minister

Question 30

Who is Hester Prynne?

Answer 30

protagonist has an A for shaming (scarlet letter) looks pretty married Chilingworth but doesnt love him passionate and becomes strong by being an outcast smarter intelligently and emotionally than the other characters can see the community differently than others

Question 31

Who is Pearl?

Answer 31

Her mom's greatest treasure because her mom gave everything up for her Curious, perception, smart her mom is puzzled by her elfish quality that made her seem unhuman

Question 32

Who is Roger Chilingworth?

Answer 32

``` Hester's husband showed up after 2 years to see her being shamed He was captured by indians He is annonomous He disguised as a doctor because he is smart Wants to find the father of the child Becomes friends with the minister Unattractive and wears black Wants to dig the knife into Dimmesdale ```

Question 33

Who is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale?

Answer 33

Young minister father of pearl he has guilt and is eaten mentally and physically from it intelligent and emotional persuasive and gifted speaker lives in a state of inner conflict and battling sinful feelings and desires to confess He gets sick from it and gets a rash and heart disease

Question 34

Who is govener Bellingham?

Answer 34

older man who spends most of his time conferring with the town fathers rule follower but is influenced by dimmesdale he worries about everyone except himself (irony)

Question 35

What does Bellinghams overgrown and disheveled garden represent?

Answer 35

his house | he is the keeper of the order of society when in reality his sister, who lives in his house, is a witch

Question 36

Who is mistress Hibbins?

Answer 36

widow lives with brother in govener house makes many public appearances because of her brother symbol of hidden evil and hypocracy

Question 37

Who is Reverend John Wilson?

Answer 37

Typical puritan minister where his sermons focus on hell, fire, brimstone to use fear as a motivator Likes strict rules and policies Likes Dimmesdale

Question 38

Who is the Narrator?

Answer 38

Works at a customs house and finds a book in the attic After he loses his job he decides to write on Hesters story He is interested in writing about america and its religious roots but feels guilty about writing for a career Shares simularities with the real Hawthorne

Question 39

What country had rampant witch hunts in Europe?

Answer 39

spain

Question 40

How many people died in the European witch hunts between 14 century to 16 century?

Answer 40

40-50 thousand

Question 41

The _ Inquisition was to oppse witchcraft and expose heresy?

Answer 41

Spanish

Question 42

Whch church was the head of the Spanish Inuisition?

Answer 42

Roman Catholic

Question 43

What concrete evidence proves someone is a witch?

Answer 43

Devil's mark: poked it and it doesnt hurt Swimming: float or sink Torture

Question 44

Witch craft was a crime against what?

Answer 44

church and state

Question 45

Where was the first witch trial in America?

Answer 45

Charelstown

Question 46

How many people lived in Salem in 1692?

Answer 46

500

Question 47

How were women expected to behave?

Answer 47

silent mothers submissive toward husband

Question 48

What voodoo trick did Tituba show reverand Parris's daughters?

Answer 48

egg white + candle = shows face of husband

Question 49

Tibuta, Osborne and Goode had waht in common?

Answer 49

accused of being witches

Question 50

What kind of unusual evidence did the witchcraft trials in Salem allow?

Answer 50

Spectral or only the accusationer could see it

Question 51

Ann Putnam said Goode tried to get her to sign what?

Answer 51

The Devil Book

Question 52

In the courtroom, the girls acted crazy and claimed the _ of Goode was attacking them

Answer 52

spectral

Question 53

who did Tituba say came to her and bid me to service him?

Answer 53

devil

Question 54

How long did Tibuta's testomony last?

Answer 54

3 days

Question 55

How many names were in the Devil's book and how many coud she read?

Answer 55

9;6

Question 56

Nurse's arest marked a change in the what?

Answer 56

socail status of the women being arrested

Question 57

How old was the youngest accused and what did they have to make for them?

Answer 57

4; smaller chains

Question 58

What was Tituba's fate?

Answer 58

she was sold back into slavery

Question 59

Which girl was the only person to apologize?

Answer 59

Ann Putran Jr

Question 60

Shortly before whose wives were to be accused were the witch trials moved and shut down?

Answer 60

Govener Phips