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Crucible Review

Quiz by Frances Cerone

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  • Q1
    What is the setting of the play?
    Stanford, Connecticut
    Salem, Massachusetts
    Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts
    Salem, Long Island
    30s
  • Q2
    What year does the play take place?
    1616
    1692
    1548
    1695
    30s
  • Q3
    In the article titled, "Anti-Communism in the 1950s," American fears of internal _____________________________ subversion caused hysteria.
    Puritan
    democratic
    patriotic
    communist
    30s
  • Q4
    One of the 1950's most notorious anti-Communists was ________________________________________
    Joseph Stalin
    Fidel Castro
    Joseph McCarthy
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    30s
  • Q5
    As a result of McCarthyism, hundreds of screenwriters, actors, and directors were _________________________________ because of their alleged political beliefs.
    blacklisted
    exiled
    hanged
    tortured
    30s
  • Q6
    All of the following are Puritan ethics EXCEPT:
    Pleasure is sinful
    Man should live according to the Ten Commandments
    Men are superior to women
    Working on a Sunday is acceptable
    30s
  • Q7
    What is the term used for the “madness”/phenomenon that overtook the town of Salem?
    faction
    jealousy
    affliction
    hysteria
    30s
  • Q8
    Reverened Parris was a nervous and paranoid minister who thought there was a faction in town that was out to get him. What does the word faction mean?
    a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one
    a group of farmers who didn’t follow religion very closely
    a non-Puritan group
    a congregation
    30s
  • Q9
    The witch hunt in the 1690s was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual _______________________.
    transgressions
    unity
    freedom
    democracy
    30s
  • Q10
    All of the following are themes in The Crucible EXCEPT:
    Vengeance
    Jealousy
    Young Love
    Importance of Reputation
    30s

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