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The Crucible Test

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100 questions
Follow the directions for each section of this test.
Multiple choice and True/False 2pt. each Pick the best choice for each question.
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Which of the following is true about The Crucible?

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In the beginning of the play what is Parris most afraid of?

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Betty's death at the beginning of the play _______.

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There are many similarities between the play and real life.

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The story takes place in ______.

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Putnam is one of the characters that shows integrity in the first two acts of the play.

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Tituba is ______.

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Parris is a ______.

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John Proctor's wife is _______.

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Abigail has strong feelings for John Proctor.

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John Proctor wants to leave his wife for Abigail.

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What does Mrs. Putnam mean when she says “You think it God’s work you should never lose a child, nor grandchild either, and I bury all but one?” to Rebecca Nurse?

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Hale is known for _____.

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Mrs. Putnam sent her daughter to the woods with Tituba.

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Abigail confessed everything that happened in the woods.

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Elizabeth and John Proctor are happily married.

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What does Proctor mean by “your justice would freeze beer!”?

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Mary Warren is afraid of Abigail.

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Elizabeth put the pin in the poppet.

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When Proctor first tells Hale that Abigail is lying ______.

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Elizabeth was accused by ______.

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What worries John about confronting Abigail?

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Who do they bring to court to collaborate John's story?

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Mary Warren _________ everyone that the girls have been lying.

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Mary Warren _________ at the end of Act 3.

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How many people vouched for Rebecca Nurse?

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The girls act like Mary Warren's spirit is ______ .

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Which of the following best describes Elizabeth’s testimony?

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In response to Abigail's intimidation of Mary, Proctor _________.

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Abigail ________ when Mary Warren starts to testify.

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Parris is ______ about what he saw in the woods.

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Mary Warren is ___________ during her testimony.

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Danforth _______ Parris.

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Giles claims that _______.

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Giles says the 'honest man' from his deposition doesn't want to come before the court because _______.

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Giles refuses to give the court the 'honest man's' name because he is trying to ________.

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In the play Giles is crushed to death because he ______.

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Who does Giles accuse of falsely accusing Jacobs of witchcraft in court?

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Giles has _______ experience in court.

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If the court listens to Mary Warren ________

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Danforth is in Salem to ________.

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Martha Corey is _______.

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Giles feels guilty because _______.

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Francis Nurse believes ________.

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Proctor brought ______ to court.

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Mary Warren testified that she ________.

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Danforth says "Tell me, Mr. Proctor, have you given out this story in the village? " because _____.

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Proctor's ______ is brought into question.

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The character that has changed the most throughout the play is _______.

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Who is Parris's niece?

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Abigail _______ consequences for all the things that happened as a result of her testimony in the trials.

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How did Abigail leave Salem?

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How has Hale changed throughout the play?

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Who ran away with Abigail?

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Why does Parris think there is going to be a riot?

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Parris: Excellency, it profit nothing you should blame me. I cannot think they would run off except they fear to keep in Salem any more. He is pleading. Mark it, sir, Abigail had close knowledge of the town, and since the news of Andover has broken here
After reading the lines above why does Parris say Abigail left town?

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Why isn't Elizabeth going to be hung with the others?

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What did Parris find outside his door that added to his fear?

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Which of the following is something that Hale believes in Act 4?

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How long has John Proctor been in jail?

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Why was Hathorne disturbed to see Parris crying in Act 4?

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Who is praying with the prisoners?

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What has caused the tense mood in town?

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What do they ask Elizabeth to try to get Proctor to do?

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How many people have been hung at the beginning of Act IV?

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One of the reasons the people of Salem are upset is because?

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Why does Danforth refuse to postpone the hangings?

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Why aren’t the farms and farm animals being taken care of?

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Why is Parris upset?

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What is Goody Proctor told about her husband at the start of ACT IV?

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What does Proctor mean when he says, "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?"

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Why would Hale consider himself a murderer if Proctor dies?

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Why will Elizabeth not judge Proctor?

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Elizabeth tells John that in their marriage she has been guilty of _______?

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What was keeping Elizabeth from wanting to help Danforth?

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How do the members of the court plan on convincing Proctor to confess?

Constructed response multiple choice questions 2 pt. each
pick the choice that best answers each question
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Constructive response questions should ________.

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Constructed response questions should be_____.

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Read the following:
Parris, studies her, then nods, half convinced: Abigail, I have Sought here three long years to bend these stiff-necked people to me, and now, just now when some good respect is rising for me in the parish, you compromise my very character. I have given you a home, child, I have put clothes upon your back - now give me upright answer. Your name in the town - it is entirely white, is it not?
Abigail, with an edge of resentment: Why, I am sure it is, sir. There be no blush about my name.
Parris, to the point: Abigail, is there any other cause than you have told me, for your being discharged from Goody Proctor’s service? I have heard it said, and I tell you as I heard it, that she comes so rarely to the church this year for she will not sit so close to something soiled. What signified that remark?

Pick the best constructed response answer below based on the following question: What is Parris worried about based on this excerpt?

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Pick the best constructed response answer below based on the following question:
Why do you think Parris cares more about himself than others around him?

Three appeals multiple choice questions 2 pts. each
pick the choice that best answers each question
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Ethos is ____

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Pathos is ______.

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Logos is _______.

Read the following passage and answer the questions about ethos, pathos, and logos
Abigail: Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about; I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself. The parlor’s packed with people, sir. I’ll sit with her.
Parris, pressed, turns on her: And what shall I say to them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered dancing like heathen in the forest?
Abigail: Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I confessed it - and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But they’re speakin’ of witch-craft. Betty’s not witched.
Parris: Abigail, I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not opened with me. What did you do with her in the forest?
Abigail: We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it.
Parris: Child. Sit you down.
Abigail, quavering, as she sits: I would never hurt Betty. I love her dearly.
Parris; Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.
Abigail: But we never conjured spirits.
Parris: Then why can she not move herself since midnight? This child is desperate! Abigail lowers her eyes. It must come out - my enemies will bring it out. Let me know what you done there. Abigail, do you understand that I have many enemies?
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Which of the three appeals does Abigail use to explain what happened to Betty:
Parris: Abigail, I cannot go before the congregation when I know you have not opened with me. What did you do with her in the forest?
Abigail: We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it.
Parris: Child. Sit you down.
Abigail, quavering, as she sits: I would never hurt Betty. I love her dearly.

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Which of the three appeals is Parris letting influence his actions in the passage above?

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Which of the three appeals is Parris using to persuade Abigail into telling the truth when he says:
Now look you, child, your punishment will come in its time. But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.

McCarthyism questions 2pts.
pick the choice that best answers each question
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Many Americans were afraid of _______ in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

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Joseph McCarthy was a ________.

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The fear of communism in the late 40's and early 50's was called the __________.

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Many Americans believe the government was packed with ________.

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Events in _____ and _____ enhanced the fear felt in the U.S.

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A Senate subcommittee launched an investigation and found ________ of subversive activity.

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Arthur Miller’s, The Crucible, is an allegory of the Red Scare that impacted society mentally, physically, and spiritually.

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In the 1950's many people in the US thought the communist culture was unrighteous, extreme, and polarizing similar to the way people in Salem (1692) viewed witchcraft.

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Which of the following are similarities between McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials?

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Arthur Miller and many of his colleages felt persecuted like the people of Salem did.

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McCarthyism and the Salem Witch Trials both manipulated people with fear and deception.

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The Salem witch trials ruined people's names and reputations as did the McCarthy trials.

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Just like the Salem witch trials everyone that refused to confess in McCarthy's trials were found guilty.

BONUS 2 pts.
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Despite their obvious Christian commitment, the early American Puritans actually banned __________ in the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1659, deeming it a sacrilege.