Q.1
REBECCA: Why, it is a lie, it is a lie!; how may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot
  • Ironically, Rebecca's speech is like incantation as she repeats the phrases it is a "lie" and "I cannot"
  • Ironically, Rebecca's speech is like incantation as she repeats the phrases "it is a lie" and "I cannot"
  • Ironically, Rebecca's speech is like incantation as she repeats the phrases it is a lie and I cannot
  • Ironically, Rebecca's speech is like "incantation" as she repeats the phrases "it is a lie" and "I cannot"
Q.2
HALE: Let you counsel among yourselves; think on your village and what may have drawn from heaven such thundering wrath upon you all
  • Hale believes the events in Salem are God's punishment for hidden acts which the people of the town have committed
  • Hale's use of the word "drawn" indicates that he blames the people of Salem for the terrible events
  • Hale presumes that the terrible events in Salem are evidence of punishment, described as heaven's "thundering wrath"
  • All of the above
Q.3
MRS. PUTNAM: This is no silly season, Rebecca. My Ruth is bewildered, Rebecca; she cannnot eat REBECCA: Perhaps she is not hungered yet
  • Rebecca demonstrates her common sense with her response to Mrs. Putnam's worry about Ruth's inability to eat, reasonably suggesting, "Perhaps she is not hungered yet"
  • Faced with Mrs. Putnam's worry over her daughter's loss of appetite, Rebecca sensibly suggests that perhaps she is not hungered yet
  • Faced with Mrs. Putnam's worry over that "she cannot eat", Rebecca sensibly suggests that perhaps she is not hungered yet
  • Rebecca demonstrates her common sense with her response to Mrs. Putnam's worry about Ruth's inability "to eat", reasonably suggesting, "Perhaps she is not hungered yet"
Q.4
MARY WARREN: When she come into the court I say to myself, I must not accuse this woman, for she sleep in ditches, and so very old and poor. But then - then she sit there, denying and denying, and I feel a misty coldness climbin' up my back, and the skin on my skull begin to creep, and I feel a clamp around my neck and I cannot breathe air; and then - ( ) - I hear a voice, a screamin' voice, and it were my voice - and all at once I remembered everything she done to me!
  • Mary's long, breathless sentence, beginning with but then - then she sit there, demonstrates the rapid acceleration of the girls' group hysteria
  • Mary's long, breathless sentence, beginning with "but then -"; then she sit there, demonstrates the rapid acceleration of the girls' group hysteria
  • Mary's long, breathless sentence, beginning with but then - then she sit there, demonstrates the rapid acceleration of the girls' group "hysteria"
  • Mary's long, breathless sentence, beginning with "But then - then she sit there", demonstrates the rapid acceleration of the girls' group hysteria
Q.5
PROCTOR: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!
  • Proctor sees that evil lies with the townspeople; the devil's filthy face has become their own
  • Proctor sees that evil lies with the townspeople; the devil's "filthy face" has become "their own"
  • Proctor sees that evil lies with the townspeople; the devil's "filthy face" has become "my face" and "your face"
  • Proctor sees that evil lies with the townspeople; the devil's "filthy face" has become their own
Q.6
MARY WARREN: I'll not hang with you! I love God, I love God
  • Recognizing that Proctor is now in danger, Mary disassociates herself from him, declaring that she'll "not hang with you"
  • Recognizing that Proctor is now in danger, Mary disassociates herself from him, repeating her declaration that she loves God
  • Recognizing that Proctor is now in danger, Mary disassociates herself from him, repeating her declaration that "I love God! I love God!"
  • Recognizing that Proctor is now in danger, Mary disassociates herself from him, repeating her declaration that "she loves God"
Q.7
ABIGAIL: She sends her spirit on me in church; she makes me laugh at prayer! PARRIS: She have often laughed at prayer!
  • Parris repeats his niece's words, "laughed" at prayer, as if they were evidence of witchcraft
  • Parris repeats his niece's words, laughed at prayer, as if they were evidence of witchcraft
  • Repeating his niece's words as if they were proof, Parris naively agrees that witchcraft could be the cause for her having often laughed at prayer
  • Repeating his niece's words as if they were proof, Parris naively agrees that witchcraft could be the cause for her having "often laughed at prayer"
Q.8
DANFORTH: In an ordinary crime, how does one defend the accused? One calls up witnesses to prove his innocence. But witchcraft is , on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not? Therefore, who may possibly be witness to it? The witch and the victim. None other. Now we cannot hope the witch will accuse herself; granted?
  • Interestingly, Danforth refers to "proving innocence" instead of "proving guilt"
  • Because "witchcraft" is not an "ordinary crime", there are few "witnesses" to provide "evidence"
  • Danforth trusts "vicitms" over "witches" to prove the occurrence of an invisible crime
  • Danforth's inexorable logic blinds him to the irony of relying on the testimony of victims to prove the occurrence of an "invisible crime"
Q.9
PROCTOR: To ask ownership is like you shall own the meeting house itself; the last meeting I were at you spoke so long on deeds and mortgages I thought it were an auction
  • Referring to the language of business, such as "deeds", "mortgages", and "auction", Proctor emphasizes how worldly the "church" has become under Parris's leadership
  • Referring to the language of business, such as deeds, mortgages, and auction, Proctor emphasizes how worldly the church has become under Parris's leadership
  • Referring to the language of business, such as "deeds", "mortgages", and "auction", Proctor emphasizes how worldly the church has become under Parris's leadership
  • Referring to the language of "business", such as deeds, mortgages, and auction, Proctor emphasizes how worldly the church has become under Parris's leadership
Q.10
PROCTOR: I have confessed myself! Is there no good penitence but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!
  • Proctor sees that the value of his "confession" is not to save his "soul", but to provide "public" proof of his "sins"
  • Proctor sees that the value of his confession is not to save his soul, but to provide public proof of his sins
  • Proctor sees that the value of his "confession" is not to "save" his soul, but to provide public proof of his sins
  • Proctor sees that the value of his confession is not to save his "soul", but to provide public proof of his "sins"
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