Act One Reading Questions (The Crucible)

1. Who is the author of The Crucible?
Arthur Miller
2. What is the setting?
Salem, spring 1682, Parris' house

3. What was the religion of the people in the play?

Puritanism

4. Why is Reverend Parris praying at the opening of the play?

Betty won't wake up

5. What was wrong with Betty Parris?

She was laying on the ground motionless. She woke up and tried to fly.

6. Name four of the girls involved in witchcraft.

Abigail, Betty, Ruth Putnam, Mary Warren, Mercy Lewis

7. What secret does John Proctor have?

He had an affair with Abigail

8. Who danced naked in the woods?

Mercy Lewis

9. Who drank blood? Why?

Abigail to kill Elizabeth Proctor

10. Who keeps suggesting that the problem with the girls involve witchcraft?

Putnams

11. Who changed his or her mind about Rev. Parris saying that he was made of iron?

Giles Corey

12. What did Giles Corey ask Rev. Hale about his wife?

What the nature of the books she reads was.

13. What was Abigail's original story when she was questioned about Tituba and the night before?

Only dancing.

14. Who is Ruth?

Putnams' daughter who sleepwalks.

15. Which two men got in an argument over land?

Putnam and Proctor

16. Which girl said she did not participate but only watched the others?

Mary Warren

17. Which girl is the Putnam's maid? 

Mercy Lewis

18. Who said he was going to find the party against Parris and join it?

Proctor

19. Who was the first person to admit working for the devil? Why did she admit it?

Tituba because she doesn't want to die.

20. Name 3 people who said they had seen people with the devil at the end of Act I.

Betty, Abigail, Tituba