1. What is the setting of the movie?
Salem, Massachusetts 1692
2. How are the children treated?
They are powerless
3. What activities are at the center of the Puritans’ lives?

4. What did Reverend Parris discover in the woods?
A ritual that the girls were performing
5. What was his reaction to what he saw?
He was astounded and broke up the ritual
6. Who started it, and who was involved?
Abigail and the girls were involved. Tituba the slave started it
7. What did Abigail drink a charm to accomplish?
To kill Elizabeth Proctor
8. Why does Abby not want Betty to reveal
That she drank a charm
9. Why is Mr. Putnam so bitter?
he had 7 babies and each of them died within a day of birth
10. Why is Mrs. Putnam so haunted?
She believes that someone used witchcraft on her to murder her children
11. When Rebecca Nurse arrives, she quiets Betty.  What is her explanation of the
events?
Ruth and Betty are probably only suffering from a childish fit
12. How is Rebecca Nurse different than Mrs. Putnam? (don’t say “she’s older”)
Rebecca doesn’t believe in witchcraft, and Mrs. Putnam thinks she is cursed
13. Characterize John Proctor. What type of man is he?
John Proctor is a good man, but a sinner.  He is honest, up-right, and blunt-spoken
14. Why should Abigail accuse Goody Proctor so harshly of being a liar?
Because she wants to be with John Proctor
15. Proctor considers himself a sinner.  What sin did he commit?
Adultery
16. Why does Parris send for Reverend Hale?
To determine if Betty is witched
17. What is the town’s reaction his decision?
They support it, they want the devil out of salem
18. What is Rev. Hales approach to determining if it’s witchcraft or not?
He questions all of the girls that are in the ritual
19. What does Giles tell Hale about Martha, his wife?

20. What is Rev. Hale’s diagnosis?
It is the work of the Devil
21.  What is the town’s reaction?
They all believe it
22. How is Parris portrayed?  What is he most concerned about?
He is most concerned about his position in the community
23. Characterize Abby
She is a power-hungry liar that will use anything to get more power
24. What was Abby’s prior relationship with the Proctor family?

25. Discuss the language used.  It is blunt and direct, and there are variations
from modern English.  What dramatic effect is produced?



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1.  Who accuses Tituba, and why?
Abigail does, because she doesn’t want to get in trouble
2.  What were the consequences for her?

3.  What does Tituba “confess?”
She says that Abigail made her conjure up a charm
4.  What do the rest of the children do after Tituba confesses?
They accuse a number of people that they saw with the devil
5.  What has happened that causes Elizabeth to ask John to go to court?

6.  What does the lead judge, Judge Danforth, promise the community?
That the devil will not rule one square inch of Massachusetts
7.  Sarah Osbourne is the first to go on trial.  Describe her “trial.”
She mumbles about
8.  Who is the first to clearly attempt to use the witchcraft accusations for personal gain?
Abigail
9.  How does he accomplish this?
She blames John Proctors wife, if she is gone, she will be able to be with him.
10.  What causes many people to walk out of court, and who leads the way?
Martha Corey laughs at the people who believes there is an invisble man
11.  What does Mary Warren make while sitting in the court?
A doll
12. What news does Mary bring to John and Elizabeth?
Some of the girls that are accused of witchcraft
13.  Judge Sewell is beginning to have doubts about the trials.  Why?



14.  John warns Abigail of his willingness to accuse her in court: what action does Abby take in
response?
She goes back to the judge and shows she has a needle in her abdomin
15.  Why does Rev. Hale come to the Proctor house?
To ask John questions.
16.  What are John and Elizabeth’s reasons for not attending church or baptising their son?
He doesn’t want other peoples hands on his baby.
17.  Which commandment does John forget, and how is it ironic?
He forgets adultery, which is ironic because he had an affair with Abigail
18.  When they come to arrest Elizabeth, what “evidence” do they find?
A doll with a needle inside of the abdomin
19.  Who else has been arrested?
Martha Corey, Rebecca Nurse,
20.  What is significant about the timing of the arrests?

21.  What promise does John make to Elizabeth?

22.  How does he plan to fulfill his promise