The Crucible Notes (A+ Graded)

What is the setting of Act I? What is the season and the year? correct answers Reverend Parris's upper bedroom; spring 1692 The first scene in Act I shows Reverend Parris doing what? correct answers weeping and praying over his daughter Betty's bed. Susanna Walcott said the doctor told them to look to _____ for Betty's inert condition. correct answers unnatural causes Abigail and the Reverend Parris discuss the rumors of witchcraft in the village. Parris confronts Abigail about how he found what? How did Abigail react? What does Paris wonder about Abigail since Goody Proctor fired her? What does Abigail say about Elizabeth? correct answers girls dancing naked in the forest, Tituba swinging her arms and mumbling unintelligible words; protests the event was for fun and they were never naked; what villagers think of her; she is a bad woman who just wanted a slave. What do the Putnams and Parris have in common? correct answers the both have sick daughters Who did Parris call for as a precaution? correct answers Reverend Hale, a renowned witch-hunter Describe Thomas Putnam. What does his daughter, Ruth, often do? correct answers vindictive and land hungry; cry out in court Mrs. Putnam reports that their own daughter, Ruth, is as listless as Betty, and she claims that someone saw Betty correct answers flying over a neighbor's barn How many babies did Mrs. Putnam have (not including Ruth)? What happened to each of them? What is she convinced of for the cause of this? Who did she send Ruth to and why? What does Parris conclude from this? What does he refuse to mention until he gets Reverend Hale's opinion? correct answers 7; died within a day; someone used witchcraft to murder them; Tituba, to contact the spirits of her dead children to discover their murderer; Abigail and the girls were practicing witchcraft; witchcraft in his home Once the girls are alone, what does Betty do? Abigail tells the girls that she has told Parris everything about their activities in the woods. What do we find out from Betty about Abigail? How does Abigail react? correct answers sits up suddenly and cries for her late mother; she drank blood as a charm to kill Elizabeth Proctor; threathens to kill them What kind of government operates in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692? correct answers theocracy What rumor is circulating about Reverend Parris's daughter Betty? correct answers She is a victim of witchcraft