Name: ________________ Date: _________________ Act I Plot questions Directions: Answer each question in a complete sentence on a separate piece

of paper. 1. What is Reverend Parris doing in the opening scene? 2. Who is lying on the bed that Reverend Parris is kneeling next to? 3. Who is Betty? 4. What is wrong with Betty? 5. Who is Abigail to Reverend Parris? 6. What is the Reverend Parris afraid of? 7. When AND what does Abigail say she was doing in the woods in the beginning? 8. Why is Parris concerned about Abigails good name? 9. Who was Abigail working for? 10. What was Betty seen doing? 11. Why did Rev. Parris call Mr. Hale? 12. Describe Thomas Putnam in 5 words. 13. How many children did Mrs. Ann Putnam put in the ground? How many did she have left alive? What does she believe to be the cause of all her children dying? 14. What do the girls say Tituba and Ruth were doing in the woods while Abigail was supposedly dancing? 15. Who is Mercy Lewis?

16. What does Mercy say helped her wake Ruth? 17. Who actually drank blood according to Betty? Why? 18. Describe John Proctor in 5 words.

19. What is hinted at happened between John Proctor and Abigail before the story starts? How do they feel about it now?

20. Why did Betty scream? What did Reverend Parris do when Betty screamed? What do Reverend Parris and the townspeople of Salem believe caused Betty to scream?

21. Why is there a crowd of Salem citizens gathered at the Minister Parrishs house? 22. What do the good people of Salem believe is happening to the children? 23. How and why is the town of Salem divided 24. What is the name of the new town formed? 25. When Reverend Hale arrives what does he bring with him? What is the purpose of his bringing these items? 26. Who is persistently instigating the thought of witchcraft? Why?

27. What did Goody Ann Putnam send her daughter Ruth to Tituba for? Goody Ann believes Tituba is capable of what?

28. Who does Hale intend to utterly crush?

29. What jumped in the kettle of Soup that night in the woods? What does Parris and the rest believe this is a sign of? 30. Who does Abigail blame for calling the Devil? 31. Who is sent to fetch Tituba? What language does Tituba speak besides English?

32. . Who is Abigail accused of selling herself to? 33. What did Tituba force the girls to drink according to Abigail? What kind of blood does Tituba say it is? 34. Tituba says she doesnt truck with the devil? She is then asked if she is silencing Betty, who then turns her loyalty away from Tituba? What does this person accuse Tituba of doing? Why? 35. What is she accused of doing by having the children drink blood? 36. What does Hale want Tituba to do for Betty? 37. What does Parris threaten to do to Tituba if she does not confess to contacting the devil? 38. Does Tituba confess? And what or who else does she say is talking to the devil? 39. What does Hale do to make Tituba a Good Christian Woman? What does Tituba do in response? 40. Hale asks Tituba if the devil comes alone when she has seen him, someone else starts naming possible people that come with the devil; who is the one that starts naming names? Why do you think this person would do this? 41. Who does Tituba say came with the Devil and what does she say they were doing?

42. What does Hale say the Devil can never overcome? 43. What does Hale say Titubas new purpose is? What does he expect her to do? 44. How many people does Tituba say came with the Devil? What does she tell Reverend Parris that devil had Bid her to do? Who is the first person Tituba accuses of coming with the devil? 45. Who is Hale supposedly trying to help by coercing a confession out of Tituba? 46. Who is Goody Osborn? Why does Mrs. Ann Putnam think Goody Osborn could be into witchcraft? 47. What does Abigail suddenly do while Tituba is giving names to Hale? Who does Abigail say she saw with the devil? 48. Betty suddenly wakes up, she begins to join in on the name giving. How many more people do her and Abigail accuse of walking with the devil? 49. . Who does Putnam go to call for help

Short Answer Questions:

All questions must be answered in at least 2 sentences 46. What do you think of Abigail, and what would you have said to her if you had been present at the end of Act One?

47. Why is Revered Parris so terrified by the events in Salem? What possible result does he fear?

48. How would you interpret Abigail's relationship to the other girls and her relationship to Proctor?

49. Summarize Hale's view of his mission in Salem. What does he mean when he says the Devil is "precise"?

50. At the beginning of the act, Tituba enters Betty's bedroom in fright because she knows "trouble in this house eventually lands on her back." Are her fears justified? To what extent is Tituba a scapegoat for Abigail and the other girls, and to what extent does she share responsibility for the witch hunt?

51. At the end of the act, what do you think is Abigail's motivation to "open" herself and begin naming names?

52. When someone is accused of a crime today, do people still have the tendency to "jump on the bandwagon" with the accusers? Explain your answer.