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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1, Pages 32-48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Betty wake from her trance to do?
(a) Sings a psalm.
(b) Drink a glass of water.
(c) Add more names to the list.
(d) Scream and writhes.

2. What does Parris accuse John Proctor of doing to him?
(a) Mistreating Abigail.
(b) Leading a faction against him.
(c) Being a heretic.
(d) Stealing his firewood.

3. What does John Proctor do for a living?
(a) He is owns a grocery store.
(b) He is a farmer.
(c) He is a coal miner.
(d) He is a doctor.

4. Mrs. Putnam suggests in Act 1 that Parris be the first to announce this in Salem. What is it?
(a) Famine.
(b) Poverty.
(c) Witchcraft.
(d) Piety.

5. Hale asks if these two men's children are "stricken" as well. Their children are not ill. Who are they?
(a) Mr. Putnam and Parris.
(b) Giles and John Proctor.
(c) Cheever and Danforth.
(d) Mr. Putnam and John Proctor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Abigail tell Parris that she and the girls where doing in the woods?

2. Hale is embarrassed by a compliment on his rationality. Which character gives him the compliment?

3. Where did Hale find a witch the year before the current action in the play?

4. Who asks if Parris has gone through the "proper channels" to investigate witchcraft in Salem?

5. What does Giles claim he was unable to do until his wife stopped reading and left the house?

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