I. What is the main conflict at the beginning of the play?

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1 Act I I. What is the main conflict at the beginning of the play? 2. What two events occurred before the play ever started which were directly related to the drama that would unfold? 3. Why is Betty Parris pretending to be sick? What do her actions in Act I reveal about her character? 4. Why is it that many of the respectable villagers, like Proctor, do not support Rev. Parris? 5. Why are Mr. and Mrs. Putnam such angry, bitter people? Act II 6. Describe the relationship between John and Elizabeth Proctor at the beginning of the act? 7. What reasons would spare someone from being condemned? 8. Why does Elizabeth think that her name has been mentioned in the courts? 9. Why does Reverend Hale visit the Proctor's? What does he suggest they do to remove any further suspicion of witchcraft from their names? I 0. Explain the significance of the poppet. Be specific. I I. By the end of Act II, who all has been taken to the jail?

2 25. At the end of the play, what does John Proctor value more than anything else?.~.... ~ -..,.. : 12. Francis Nurse brings Danforth a list of ninety-one people who believe that Rebecca, Elizabeth, and Martha were all good, upstanding, and God-loving citizens. Upon examining it what does Danforth tells Mr. Cheever to do? How could this add to the hysteria in Salem?... ' According to Giles, what was Putnam's interest in the witch trials? 14. What does Danforth ask Mary Warren to do in order to prove that she was faking the entire time?...,., At the end of Act Ill, how do the girls turn on Mary Warren? Why do they do this? 16. What does Reverend Hale do when john Proctor is arrested? Act IV 17. Why does Reverend Hale return to Salem in Act IV? 18. Where is Abigail Williams at the beginning of the act? 19. Why won't judge Danforth postpone the hangings? 20. Identify dynamidround characters in the play. 21. Identify flat/static characters in the play. 22. Identify a character foil in the play. 23. What requirements does Danforth asks of John Proctor to save his life? "* 24. Contrast the relationship between John and Elizabeth in Act 4 to Act 2.

3 Act I - I. Who said it? What does this reveal about the character? with ang.er: I saw it!. He moves from.her. Then resolved: Now tell. me true, Abigail. And I pray you feei the weight of truth upon you, for now my ministry's at stake, my ministry ~nd perhaps your cousin's life. Whatever abomination you have done, give me all of it now, for I dare not be taken unaware when I go before them down there. 2. Who said it? What does it reveal about the character? 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. 3. Who are the two speakers? What is the tone of each? :, A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after It; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back. :, This is no silly season, Rebecca. My Ruth is bewilder~d. Rebecca; she cannot eat. 4. (with a tasty love of intelleaual pursuit): Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises... Have no fear now- we shall find him out if he has come among us, and I mean to crush him utterly if he has shown his face! (He starts for the bed.) Act II 5. Who is speaking? How does it support the theme of "absolute power corrupts absolutely"? : So I'll be gone every day for some time. l'msay, and 1-1 am an official of the court, they : I'll official you! :I'll not stand whipping anymore!

4 .-. : J 6. Who is speaking? What is the tone of the passage? - grasping her by the throat as though he would strangle her: Make your peace with it! Now Hell and Heaven grapple on our backs, and all out old pretense is ripped away-make yc;>ur peace! He throws her to the floor, where she sobs, "/cannot,./ cannot.,, And now, half to himself, staring, and turning to the open door: Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now. Act Ill 7. Who is the speaker? What type of irony does the passage exemplify?..: '..... "Then I'm sure [innocent people] may have nothing to fear. Hands Cheever the paper. Mr. Cheever, have warrants drawn for all of these arrests for examination." 8. Identify the speaker. How is this an example of the theme "absolute power corrupts absolutely"?.: This is a hearing; you cannot clap me for contempt of a hearing., :. Do you wish me to declare the court in full session here? Or will you give me good reply? 9. Who are the two speakers? Why is this passage an example of dramatic irony?,reaches out and holds her face, then: Look at me! To your own knowledge, has John Proctor ever committed the crime of lechery? In a crisis of indecision she cannot speak, Answer my question! Is your husband a lecher!, faintly: No, sir. I 0. Who are the speakers? What time of irony does the passage exemplify? : Bring her out! And tell her not one word of what's been spoken here. To Proctor: Your wife, you say, is an honest woman.

5 II. Identify the speaker. The author speaks to the reader when he notes that Abigail draws Mary to her "out of infinite charity." This is an example of which type of irony? screaming at him: No, I love God. I bless God. Sobbing, she rushes to Abigail. Abby, Abby, I'll never hurt you more! They all watch, as Abigail, out of her in(lnite charity, reaches out and draws the sobbing Mary to her, and then looks up at Danforth. Act IV 12. Identify the speakers. Explain what the second speaker means to communicate.,: Woman, plead with him! Go to him, take his shame away! (supporting herself against collapse, grips the bars of the window, and with a cry): He have his goodness now.

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