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FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE
CRUCIBLE QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS
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-Guarantee passing score -25 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: "The devil is precise; the marls of his presence are definite as stone."
Answer:
Theme: fear
Techniques: simile
Question 2: "Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now...And the wind, God's icy wind, will blow!"
Answer:
Theme: autonomy
techniques: repetition, imagery, juxtaposition.
Question 3: "It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.,,it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride." - Danforth
Answer:
Theme: fear
techniques: contrast, asyndeton, repetition.
Question 4: "the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow where the accusing finger points!"
Answer:
Theme: fear
techniques: foreshadowing, synecdoche
Question 5: "Oh the noose, the noose is up!" - Elizabeth
Answer:
Theme: fear
techniques: metonym, repetition, metaphor.
Question 6: "We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant's vengeance! I'll not give my wife to vengeance!" - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: hysteria
techniques: repetition, contrast, metaphorical imagery.
Question 7: "She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris' house tonight, and without word nor warnin' she falls to the floor. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. " - Cheever
Answer:
Theme: fear
Techniques: polysyndeton, simile, bestial connotations, alliteration.
Question 8: "Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; reprieve or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that died till now. While I speak God's law, I will not crack its voice with whimpering." - Hathorne
Answer:
theme: fear
techniques: oxymoron, metaphor, contrast
Question 9: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life." - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: reputation
technqiues: metonym, motif, biblical symbolism.
Question 10: "I want to open myself!...I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I sam him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! - Abigail
Answer:
Theme: autonomy
techniques: anaphora, biblical allusion, contrast.
Question 11: "My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled! Goody Proctor is a gossiping liar!" - Abigail
Answer:
Theme: reputation
techniques: exclamation, metonym, motif.
Question 12: "I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie....Mr Proctor, a score of people have already testified they saw this woman with the Devil." - Danforth
Answer:
Theme: fear
techniques: dramatic irony, alliteration, biblical allusion.
Question 13: "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!...God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!" - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: hysteria
techniques: repetition, biblical allusion, metaphor, paradox.
Question 14: "I'll tell you what's walking in Salem - vengeance is walking in Salem." - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: Hysteria
Techniques: antanaclasis, truncated sentence.
Question 15: "I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another...I have no tongue for it." - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: reputation/judgement
techniques: tricolon, metaphor, motif.
Question 16: "I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet about the town." - Parris
Answer:
Theme: fear
techniques: comparison, dramatic irony.
Question 17: "There are wheels within wheels in this village, and fires within fires!" - Mrs Putnam
Answer:
Theme: Hysteria.
Techniques: repetition, conduplicatio, symbolism
Question 18: "Don't lie!...She comes to me while I sleep; she's always making me dream corruptions!"- Abigail
Answer:
Theme: fear
Techniques: dramatic irony, symbolism.
Question 19: Elizabeth, with great fear, "I will fear nothing."
Answer:
Theme: fear
technique: contrast, irony
Question 20: "He know it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what I sign to is not the same!" - Proctor
Answer:
Theme: autonomy
techniques: rhyme, repetition.
Question 21: "God help me, I lusted, and there is a promise in such sweat. But it is a whore's vengeance." - Proctor
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