Test 1
| Question I: Choose the correct answer in light of your study of Restoration drama and Miller’s The Crucible (50 Marks). | A | B | C | D |
| 1. Is Act 1 of The Crucible, who tries to jump out of a window? | Mary Warren | Abigail | Betty | Ruth |
| 2. “There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit.” Identify the speaker. | Parris | Putnam | Proctor | Danforth |
| 3. The opening scene of The Crucible took place in … | Parris home | Proctor’s home | The courtroom | Tituba’s home |
| 4. “A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it: you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.” Who is the speaker? | Arthur Miller | Rebecca | Hale | Proctor |
| 5. “Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposite are of Lucifer.” These words are said by … | Arthur Miller | Proctor | Proctor | Hale |
| 6. The Country Wife (1675) was written by … | Thomas killigrew | William wycherley | John Vanburgh | William Congreve |
| 7. “You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’ … Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.” Identify the speaker. | Proctor | Parris | Putnam | Abigail |
| 8. When Hale questions John Proctor, he asks about all of the following EXCEPT … | Commandments | Baptized children | Complracy against authority | Church attendance |
| 9. “Let you fear nothing! Another judgment waits us all!” These words are said by … | Abigail | Rebecca | Elizabeth | Proctor |
| 10. “Nobody wants to be a hero … but in every man there is something he cannot give up and still remain himself.” These words are said by … | Arthur Miller | Elizabeth | Proctor | Rebecca |
| 11. At the end of Art 4 in The Crucible, what does Hale want Elizabeth to do ? | | | | |
| 12. What “confusionss” does Elizabeth make to Proctor in their last conversation in The Crucible? | | | | |
| 13. In Act 2 of The Crucible, why does Cheeverr come to Proctor’s house? | | | | |
| 14. What does the word “crucible” in the title or Arthur Miller’s The Crucible mean? | | | | |
| 15. “He had a sharp and biting way with hypocrites.” To whom does this line refer? | | | | |
| 16. John Proctor screams at Judge Danforth to leave him at least not shred of dignity by leaving him his … | | | | |
| 17. “A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it. there be no between” These words are said by … | | | | |
| 18. “He have his goodness now, God forbid I take it from him!” Who is the speaker? | | | | |
| 19. Abigail pretended Mary Warren took the shape of what in the courtroom? | | | | |
| 20. Identify the speaker. “I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men!” | | | | |
| 21. Identify the speaker. ”your house is not a church, your theology must tell you that.” | | | | |
| 22. Which character from The Crucible sues the witch tales to carry out personal revenge? | | | | |
| 23. Which character from The Crucible in a valuable and worthy woman put to death as a witch? | | | | |
| 24. Which character from The Crucible has a false appearance that conceals his reality? | | | | |
| 25. Which character from The Crucible wants to do the right thing but feels pressure from the other girls? | | | | |
| 26. The Way of the World is a Restoration comedy written by… | | | | |
| 27. “You know yourself I must do as I’m told.” Identify the speaker. | | | | |
| 28. “The Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!” The speaker here is … | | | | |
| 29. The opportunistic fox in Ahmed Shawqi’s poem “The Fox and the Miller’s The Crucible? | | | | |
| 30. The Cruible mostly informs the reader about which of the following? | | | | |
| 31. In what year did the Salem Witch Trials take place? | | | | |
| 32. “I never heard you worried so on this society, Mr. Proctor, I do not think I saw you at Sabbath meeting since snow flew,” These words are said by … | | | | |
| 33. “They’ve come to overthrow the court, sir! The speaker here is … | | | | |
| 34. Arthur Miller used Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for … | | | | |
| 35. “Man, remember, until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven,” The speaker in this quotation is … | | | | |
| 36. Identify the speaker.” I think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again.” | | | | |
| 37. “She is blackening my name in the village! She is telling lies about me! She is a cold. sniveling woman.” These words are said ABOUT … | | | | |
| 38. “I like not the smell of this authority,” The speaker here is … | | | | |
| 39. How many people were hung for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials? | | | | |
| 40. “Theology, sir, is a fortress; one crack in a fortress may be accounted small,” These words are said by … | | | | |
| 41. “Do that which is good and no harm shall come to thee.” Whom does Proctor address? | | | | |
| 42. The Provoked Wife (1697) was written by … | | | | |
| 43. Which character from The Crucible proclaims that Abigail Williams should be “ripped out of the World”? | | | | |
| 44. What does the commandment that John Proctor forgets concern? | | | | |
| 45. “There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” Identify the speaker. | | | | |
| 46. “We are only what we always were, but naked now.” These words are said by … | | | | |
| 47. “He regarded himself as the intellectual superior of most of the people around him.” To whom does this line refer? | | | | |
| 48. “There is a party in this church. I am not blind; there is a faction and a party.” Who is the speaker? | | | | |
| 49. “He believed he was being persecuted wherever he went, despite his best efforts to win people and God to his side.” These words are used by Miller to describe … | | | | |
| 50. The first professional female playwright in England was … | | | | |
| Question II: Indicate whether of the following statements related to Restoration drama and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is true or false (40 Marks): | √ | × |
| 1. In seventeenth century Salem, anybody who did not wholeheartedly uphold the dominant beliefs of the society was seen as a traitor. | | |
| 2. The people of Salem developed a theocracy. | | |
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| 10. The puritans as portrayed in The Crucible are tolerant of other texts. | | |
| 11. Writing The Crucible was Arthur Miller’s way of pretesting against mass conformity and lack of individual opinions. | | |
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| 13. Restoration Drama appeared in England before the rule of the Puritans. | | |
| 14. The Crucible is a historical play that has nothing to do with Arthur Miller’s own society. | | |
| 15. Proctor’s final message in The crucible is that it is better to take death than let anyone shame your reputation in life. | | |
| 16. In seventeenth century Massachusetts under the Puritan regime, people who opposed the authorities were seen to be agents of the Devil. | | |
| 17. John Proctor died for his insistence to be himself and his refusal to give up his identity as a free and independent. | | |
| 18. The puritan government in Massachusetts used to be hysterically violent against dissenters and all those who were dedicated to a belief in personal freedom. | | |
| 19. Proctor does not attend church regularly because he is an atheist with no belief in God. | | |
| 20. The theological preaching of Parris focuses on love and justice. | | |
| 21. Restoration drama refers to late seventeenth century American drama. | | |
| 22. The events of The Crucible took place in London. | | |
| 23. Restoration drama was far superior to Elizabethan drama. | | |
| 24. The Puritan society as portrayed in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is based on pluralism. | | |
| 25. Accusing innocent people without real evidence is a common problem in Karnak Café by Naguib Mahfouz and The Crucible by Arthur Miller. | | |
| 26. The event which Miller uses as the historical background of his drama is Salem Witch trials which took place in London between February 1692 and May 1693. | | |
| 27. Arthur Miller and John Proctor, the protagonist of The Crucible, had similar beliefs and did similar things and both were targeted by the governments of their time. | | |
| 28. John Proctor is able to discover in his life’s darkest moments the admirable qualities of his character. | | |
| 29. Restoration drama is best known for the comedy of manners. | | |
| 30. Arthur Miller sees art only as an aesthetic creation used to entertain and elevate the sense of beauty. | | |
| 31. The character of Hale in The Crucible is shown from the very beginning as an open-minded person who critically examines all claims and does not have blind trust in the authority. | | |
| 32. The group of Puritans who settled in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century insisted on the ultimate and complete authority of the scriptures. | | |
| 33. Open-mindedness and acceptance of the other were dominant characteristics in the Puritan colony in Massachusetts. | | |
| 34. The Crucible is concerned only with history. | | |
| 35. The predilection for minding other people’s business was rejected among the people of Salem. | | |
| 36. In order to save his life, John Proctor agrees to sign a written confession to be hung on the church door. | | |
| 37. The term “restoration” in Restoration drama refers to the return of the monarchy to England after several years of Puritan rule. | | |
| 38. In Miller’s The Crucible, Rebecca Nurse is respected only by few people in her society. | | |
| 39. The puritans in Miller’s The Crucible are portrayed as snobbish people with extreme sense of self-righteousness. | | |
| 40. Miller found many parallels between America in the late seventeenth century and America in the 1950s. | | |