English 3 Final Exam - Semester 1

Rebecca Nurse

"There is a prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits.”

Elizabeth

“I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you.”

Proctor

“The promise that a stallion gives a mare I gave that girl!”

Rev. Hale

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

Elizabeth

“He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him.”

Danforth

“The pure of heart need no lawyers.”

Rev. Hale

“There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respects and ancient friendships.”

Proctor

“I hear the boot of Lucifer… we will burn together.”

Rev. Hale

"I am a minister of the Lord, and I dare not take a life without there be proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscience may doubt it."

Parris

“You cannot hang this sort. There is a danger for me.”

probity

the quality of having strong moral principles

heathen

an unenlightened person

deposition

removing a powerful person from office

theocracy

laws of religion

defamation

attack on a person’s name/character

prodigious

great in size

pretense

giving a false appearance (lying)

notorious

known widely

blasphemy

“insulting” God / the church

ameliorate

to make better

prevail

to persuade successfully

adamant

inflexible

daft

foolish / mentally irregular

excommunicated

exclusion from a church

contentious

argumentative