Crucible

"But, Mr. Proctor, they will not hang them it they confess. Sarah Good will only sit in jail some time - recall-ing - and here’s a wonder for you; think on this. Goody Good is pregnant!"

Marry Warren to Proctor

" Excellency, I have signed seventy-two death warrants; I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be a proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it."

Hale to Danforth

"Good. Then her saintliness is done with. Mary backs from him. We will slide together into our pit; you will tell the court what you know."

Proctor to Mary Warren

"Goody Proctor, you are not sum-moned here for disputation. Be there no wifely tenderness within you? He will die with the sunrise. Your husband. Do you under-stand it? She only looks at him. What say you? Will you contend with him? She is silent. Are you stone?"

Danforth to Elizabeth

"I am a stranger here, as you know. And in my ignorance I find it hard to draw a clear opinion of them that come accused before the court. And so this afternoon, and now tonight, I go from house to house"

Hale to Court and Danforth

"I cannot blink what I saw, Abigail, for my enemies will not blink it"

Proctor to Elizabeth

"I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are!"

Proctor to Danforth

" I see no light of God in that man. I’ll not conceal it."

Proctor to Hale about Parris

" I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another"

Proctor to Danforth

"I take it on my soul, but who else may surely tell us what person murdered my babies? "

Ann Putnam to Parris

"Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God’s fingers? I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem - vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance!"

Proctor to Hale

"it come to naught that I should forgive you, if you’ll not forgive yourself. Now he turns away a little, in great agony. It is not my soul, it is yours."

Elizabeth to Proctor

"Mr. Proctor, this morning, your wife send me a claim in which she states that she is pregnant now...You say your only purpose is to save your wife. Good, then, she is saved at least this year..Will you drop this charge? "

Danforth to Proctor

"They think to go like saints. I like not to spoil their names"

Proctor to Danforth

"This is contempt, sir, contempt!"

Hathorne to Danforth

"When the Devil came to you did you see Rebecca Nurse in his company?"

Danforth to Proctor

"Where is my wood? My contract provides I be supplied with all my firewood. I am waiting since November for a stick, and even in November I had to show my frostbitten hands like some London beggar!"

Parris to Putnam, Giles

"Why - ! The girl is mur-der! She must be ripped out of the world! "

Elizabeth to Hale

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!'

Betty to Abigail

"You know, do you not, that I have no connection with the court? She seems to doubt it. I come of my own, Goody Proctor. I would save your husband’s life, for if he is taken I count myself hi: murderer. Do you understand me?"

Hale to Elizabeth

Tituba

an African slave from Barbados, the first person to be accused, practices voodooism

Betty

daughter of Reverend Parris, sickly lost her mother

Reverend Parris

minister of Salem, leader of own, paranoid that there is a group out to fire him (Religious, powerful, political leader of salem, greedy, celf-centered)

Abigail Williams

saw both of her parents killed by Indians, an affair with John Proctor, Parris's niece, leader of the girls

Ann Putnam

bitter, used the witch hunts as a way to accuse people for her seven miscarriages, Ruth's mother

Mary Warren

John and Elizabeth's servant, timid, cannot stand up to Abigail

Thomas Putnam

known as the "man with many grievances", his name is behind many of the accusations because he wanted more land, holds a gruge against Parris and many others

Judge Danforth

a stubborn judge who tolerates no challenge to his authority

Reverend John Hale

inexperienced but well educated man who comes to Salem to solve the witch problem, witch expert brought into Salem

Giles Corey

old man who is crushed with stones, sues everyone to get more land

Rebecca Nurse

worthy woman put to death as a witch, reasonable, wise old woman

John Proctor

Farmer, voice of reason, does not go to church regularly, had an affair with Abigail

Elizabeth Proctor

very honest, married to John Proctor, has not been to church since firing Abigail

Mercy Lewis

Putnam's servent, friend of Abigail, one of accussed

Francis Nurse

Rebeccas husband, begs to save his wife's life, led faction to keep Putnam's candidate from becoming reverend

Judge Hathorne

presides over trials, bitter, remorseless

Sarah Good

homeless drinker, begger, outcast, ecentric, part of names accussed

Martha Corey

Married to Giles Corey, reads strange books

Cheever

secretary of court, reporting all proceeding

How many people were hung for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials?

19

In Act 1, who does Tituba accuse of being witches?

Sarah Good and Sarah Osborn

Parris had frequent conflicts with his congregation about

His salary

Who said, “I want to open myself! . . . I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of
Jesus!”?

Abigail Williams

Who said, “I have trouble enough without I come five mile to hear him preach only hellfire
and bloody damnation.”?

John Proctor

In Act 1, who tries to jump out of a window?

Betty Parris

Who had a warrant for Elizabeth?

Ezekiel Cheever

What were the charges against Martha Corey and Rebecca Nurse?

Martha: killing Walcott’s pigs by her books, Rebecca: killing Ann Putnam’s babies

91 people signed a deposition attesting to the good character of the following EXCEPT:

Ann Putnam

Who said, “they’ve come to overthrow the court, sir!”?

Reverend Parris

What was found on Parris’ door?

A dagger