The Crucible act II study guide
1. What does Mary Warren claim to be?
2. When he comes in from planting, what suggestion does John Proctor make to his wife concerning the house?
3. What does Elizabeth fear about her husband?
4. How may the people who have been accused of being witches by the court save themselves from hanging?
5. What reason does John Proctor give Reverend Hale for his absence from church?
6. Why does Hale come to the Proctors’ house?
7. Which commandment does John forget when Hale asks him to recite the Ten Commandments?
8. What is Hale’s advice to the Proctors as he prepares to leave their house?
9. What is unusual about the doll that Mary Warren makes for Elizabeth?
10. Who is Ezekiel Cheever?
11. As Elizabeth is led away to jail, what does John demand of Mary Warren?
12. What information does Elizabeth not report to John?
13. Why does Proctor say he is reluctant to go to Salem and tell what Abigail said to him?
14. How has Mary Warren changed during this act?
15. What is the strongest evidence against Goody Osburn?
16. Hale tests the Proctors by questioning them about what?
17. Who is the leader of the accusers in court?
18. What does Proctor say when Hale questions him about not going to church?
19. What becomes apparent during the course of Act II?
20. What does Elizabeth ask Proctor to do?
21. What is the most probable cause of the accusation of witchcraft?
22. A chief conflict established in Act II is between which two characters?
23. Why is Marshal Herrick shamefaced when he appears at the Proctors’ house?
24. What is Mary Warren’s motivation for joining the girls in their accusations of witchcraft?
25. Why does Elizabeth say that Abigail accuses her of being a witch?