The Crucible Quiz: Act 3 & Act 4 STUDY GUIDE
[format: short answers]
Act 3
Why Giles and Francis go to talk to Danforth
What Hale realizes about the girls
What Mary can’t do in court & why
Why Elizabeth fired Abigail, according to Elizabeth
Elizabeth’s testimony about the alleged affair
3 things that happen to Proctor at the end of Act 3
What Hale does at the end of Act 3
Act 4
What happens to Abigail
Why Danforth won’t pardon the people
Why Hale returns to Salem
What Elizabeth tries to convince John
How Giles dies
What Elizabeth apologizes to John for
What happens to Proctor in the end
Act 3ANSWERS
Why Giles and Francis go to talk to Danforth
- Want to save their wives
What Hale realizes about the girls
- Begins to realize maybe they are right that the girls are lying
What Mary can’t do in court & why
- Wants her to faint in the court
- Too nervous & alone
Why Elizabeth fired Abigail, according to Elizabeth
- Says she thought Proctor liked Abigail so she fired her because she was jealous
Elizabeth’s testimony about the alleged affair
- Proctor already confessed the affair
3 things that happen to Proctor at the end of Act 3
- Mary accuses him of working with the devil
- He confesses his affair
- His arrest is ordered
What Hale does at the end of Act 3
- Declares he is quitting the court
Act 4ANSWERS
What happens to Abigail
- Stole money from Parris & ran away
Why Danforth won’t pardon the people
- He wants to be right [he was executed a lot of people already]
- Can’t admit he might be wrong
Why Hale returns to Salem
- Knows it is all lies and everyone is innocent
- Wants to help save the innocent people
What Elizabeth tries to convince John
- Wants her to convince John to confess [lie to save himself]
- It is better to lie to save yourself than to die in God’s eyes
How Giles dies
- Tortured to give up his source; doesn’t give up the name so he dies
What Elizabeth apologizes to John for
- Asks him to forgive her for keeping a “cold house” [didn’t keep him happy before the affair started so she blames herself]
What happens to Proctor in the end
- He rips up the confession; Doesn’t want the paper to get nailed up on the church with his name on it
- Says he has lied, given his soul, said he loves the devil, but just wants his name/reputation -> judges don’t care -> he gets hanged