The Crucible Acts 1 and 2 Study Guide.
Who is Mary Warren?
Currently a servant in the Prior household; naïvee young girl.
Who is Giles Corey?
83 year old person who is always accused when something goes wrong.
Who is Reverend Hale?
A minister who comes from Beverly to Salem.
Who is John Proctor?
A sensible man who recognizes hypocrisy; protagonist of the play.
Who is Tituba?
A slave from Barbados who conjures spirits.
Who is Abigail Williams?
Accuses John Proctor of being in love with her.
Before her arrest, Elizabeth Proctor believes that her husband...
Believes that her husband still has some desire for Abigail.
Who is Betty Paris?
Cannot eat or talk at the beginning of the play; under a spell or pretending to be.
When questioned by Hale, Tituba...
Confesses to witchcraft.
When Reverend Parris surprised Tituba, Abigail and the other girls in the forest, he saw...
Dancing, dress in the grass, Tituba drinking blood.
Ezekiel Cheever becomes convinced that Elizabeth Proctor is a witch when he discovers that...
Doll with a needle in the belly.
Who is Reverend Parris?
Harvard-educated Salem minister.
Beginning of act one, why is Paris angry with Abigail?
Her dismissal from the Proctor house has caused him embarrassment
Who is Francis Nurse?
Involved in land war; others resented his rise in social status and his successful children; husband to Rebecca.
Who is Ann Putman?
Lost 7 babies at birth; mother to Ruth, wife to Thomas.
Miller, in the crucible, was drawing a parallel between the witch trials in Salem and which event in the early 1950's?
McCarthy Trials.
When his daughter goes into an apparent trance, Parris refuses to leap to the conclusion that witchcraft is to blame because...
Parris fears Salem will kick him out.
Parris summons Reverend Hale to Salem as...
Precaution only.
Proctor has not had his youngest son baptized because he...
Sees no light in God in Reverend Parris.
Learning that Hale has been summoned, Rebecca Nurse expresses...
The doubts the search for loose spirits.