The Crucible

Question 1

putnam money revenge

Answer 1

This man is killing his neighbours for his land!

Question 2

mrs putnam and rebecca nurse

Answer 2

I’ll not have you judging me any more!

Question 3

hale regret

Answer 3

There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!”

Question 4

abigail accusation

Answer 4

I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

Question 5

john proctor abigail intent

Answer 5

She thinks to dance with me on my wife’s grave!

I thought of her softly

I lusted

it is a whore’s vengeance…

Question 6

proctor name

Answer 6

“Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my 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!”

Question 7

tituba accusations

Answer 7

And I look… and there was Goody Good.

Question 8

john proctor guilt

Answer 8

Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of mind. We never touched, Abby.

Question 9

john proctor description

Answer 9

lecher

Question 10

john proctor forgiveness of himself

Answer 10

I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.

Question 11

abigail accusing tituba

Answer 11

“Tituba! Tituba made me do it!”

“She comes to me every night to go and drink blood!”

Question 12

picking sides

Answer 12

a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between.

Question 13

vengeance

Answer 13

vengeance is walking Salem

little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance!

Question 14

hale’s evidence

Answer 14

I have seen too many frightful proofs in court—the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!

Question 15

lies and pretense in salem

Answer 15

I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!

Question 16

abigail and john proctor relationship

Answer 16

You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

Question 17

wheels

Answer 17

There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!

the cyclical nature of conflict and revenge, one causes the other and it continues in a complex circling spiderweb

Question 18

john proctor description by mary warren

Answer 18

“You are the Devil’s man!”

Question 19

danforth justification for murder

Answer 19

I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just

Question 20

books

Answer 20

I never had no wife that be so taken with books,

Question 21

beating is rampant in the community

Answer 21

Have you tried beatin’ her? suggested by Mercy Lewis about Ruth

Question 22

john proctor naked revelation

Answer 22

we are only what we always we, but naked now

Question 23

giles corey being a boss

Answer 23

more weight

Question 24

hale

Answer 24

“I denounce these proceedings!”

Question 25

forest description

Answer 25

the virgin forest was the Devil’s last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand

Question 26

thomas putnam description

Answer 26

he was a man with many grievances

he regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him

vindictive nature

motif of resentment

Question 27

rebecca nurse description

Answer 27

wise, sensible, and upright woman

Question 28

abigails intention to drink blood

Answer 28

you drank a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor!” betty parris

Question 29

rebecca nurse child rearing technique

Answer 29

I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons…

Question 30

the reason pa

Answer 30

We cannot leap to witchcraft. They will howl me out of Salem for such corruption…

Question 31

giles corey’s opinion of thomas

Answer 31

A fart on Thomas Putnam is what I say to that!

Question 32

abigail bad word

Answer 32

it is a whore

Question 33

did john cheat

Answer 33

did he turn from you?

no, sir

Question 34

paris howl/enemy suspicion

Answer 34

they will howl me out of salem for such corruption in my house

for surely my enemies will and they’ll ruin me with it

Question 35

when was the play made

Answer 35

1692

Question 36

hale blood quote

Answer 36

There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!

Question 37

life is valuable

Answer 37

Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. HALE

Question 38

burn fire

Answer 38

We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.