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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abigail ultimately want from John Proctor?
(a) She wants him to kill his wife.
(b) She wants him to give her money.
(c) She wants him to rehire her.
(d) She wants to continue the affair.

2. How are the people in the trial "tested" for witchcraft?
(a) If the girls scream, they are jailed.
(b) If they float in a lake, they are innocent.
(c) If they dance and the kettle is still they are innocent.
(d) If they dance and the kettle moves they are guilty.

3. In what room are psalms being sung in Act 1?
(a) The den.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The living room.
(d) The parlor.

4. Who complains that he/she is living in "poverty"?
(a) Abigail.
(b) Hale.
(c) Parris.
(d) Rebecca Nurse.

5. In Act 4, Elizabeth tells John that a number of people have already confessed. How many?
(a) Seventy-five.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Two hundred.
(d) Twenty-five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hale ask Danforth to delay the witch trial proceedings?

2. What does Abigail say is wrong with Betty, when explaining her own actions to Parris?

3. When the girls list the other names of people they've seen with the devil, what does Hale do?

4. Hale asks if these two men's children are "stricken" as well. Their children are not ill. Who are they?

5. Who attacks Mary during the Which trial in Act 2?

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