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The Crucible Study Guide (ACT 2) Exam Question & Answers 2025
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(1) How much time has elapsed between Acts One and Two? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Eight days has elapsed (2) What has happened in this time period? What role does Abigail play in the proceedings? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅14 people have been accused, then went to 39 then to more people. An official court has been established. Abigail is the group leader for the girls (3) Describe the relationship between John and Elizabeth - CORRECT ANSWER ✅It seems very awkward (they don't know what to say to each other, so they seem to talk about useless things) and kind of strange (4) Why does John hesitate in exposing Abigail as a fraud? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅John hesitates because he knows she could expose him of having an affair with her (5) Upon returning from town, Mary Warren is visibly upset. What, in the day's events, may have caused such
distress in Mary? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅She was distressed because she thinks she was attacked by a witch in court and she was afflicted at one point (6) What does Mary give to Elizabeth? Why? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Mary gives Elizabeth a doll. She said she made it when she was sitting long hours in a chair, and she passed time with sewing. Mary then says that they have to love each other (7) Why does the court decide to hang Goody Osburn but not Sarah Good? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Because Sarah Good confessed, while Goody Osburn did not (8) On what evidence does the court convict Goody Osburn? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅She didn't know her commandments (9) Describe Mary's reaction when Proctor forbids her to return to court. What news does she share? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅She reacts by suddenly being indignant and she says that she's going to the court. She speaks back to
were upon the altar. But, Parris looked only for golden candlesticks and it hurt his prayer --> what he did wasn't good enough for Rev. Parris (14) When asked to recite the commandments, John remembers all but one. What is the significance of the forgotten commandment? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅John forgets the commandment of committing adultery. The significance is that he had committed adultery with Abigail (the readers know) (15) What are John and Elizabeth's feelings on the existence of witches? How does Reverend Hale react to this? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅John and Elizabeth both say they do not believe in witchcraft. Reverend Hale is shocked with this fact (16) Why do Giles Corey and Francis Nurse arrive at the Proctor's house? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅They arrived in order to tell and warn John Proctor that their wives are being arrested.
(17) What charge has been brought against Rebecca Nurse? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅The charge is murdering Goody Putnam's seven babies (18) On what charge is Martha Corey arrested? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Supposedly she cursed her pigs (19) Who is Ezekiel Cheever? For what reason does he arrive at the Proctor household? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅He is the clerk of the court. He arrives at the Proctor household to arrest Elizabeth and to search the house for any poppets. (He is a warrant and arrests the accused) (20) Why is the presence of a poppet in the Proctor house an important piece of "evidence"? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅There is a pin in the stomach of the poppet, and Abigail was stabbed with a pin during dinner and claimed that it was the spirit of Elizabeth. (21) Who watched Mary sew the poppet? What does this reveal? - CORRECT ANSWER ✅Abigail watched Mary sew the poppet. This reveals that Abigail stabbed herself
and tell the court. He will go to the court and tell them everything. He knows it won't be easy