The Crucible Act 3 Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Where does most of Act 3 take place?
In the vestry room of the Salem meeting house, used as the court’s anteroom
In the Proctors’ farmhouse while officials search it
In Reverend Parris’s home beside Betty’s room
In the Salem jail immediately before the executions
2. What does Proctor knowingly sacrifice when he confesses his affair with Abigail?
His public reputation and claim to moral respectability
His ownership of the farm inherited from his family
His legal right to testify before Deputy Governor Danforth
His membership in Reverend Hale’s congregation
3. How does Reverend Hale respond after Mary turns against Proctor and Proctor is arrested?
He asks to lead the next examination of Elizabeth
He denounces the proceedings and quits the court
He joins Parris in demanding Proctor’s immediate execution
He withdraws his earlier criticism and supports Abigail
4. What is the immediate dramatic effect of Elizabeth’s denial of the affair?
It proves that Mary Warren’s deposition was forged
It contradicts Proctor at the crucial moment and weakens his case against Abigail
It persuades Danforth to dismiss every accusation
It causes Abigail to admit that the girls were pretending
5. What is Francis Nurse trying to establish with the petition signed by 91 people?
The court has no legal authority outside Boston
Abigail previously admitted that witchcraft was invented
Rebecca, Martha, and Elizabeth have good reputations among their neighbors
Parris should be removed from his position as Salem’s minister
6. Danforth offers to postpone Elizabeth’s execution because she is pregnant. Why does Proctor still refuse to abandon his challenge to the court?
He wants Danforth to release Abigail at the same time
Rebecca Nurse and Martha Corey would remain in danger
He believes Elizabeth has secretly confessed
He intends to replace Hale as the court’s minister
7. Why is Giles Corey held in contempt of court?
He admits that he signed a false confession
He destroys the petition before Danforth can inspect it
He attempts to remove Martha Corey from the courtroom by force
He refuses to identify the person who gave him information about Putnam
8. According to Giles Corey, why did Thomas Putnam encourage an accusation against George Jacobs?
Jacobs had accused Putnam’s wife of reading forbidden books
Jacobs had refused to testify in defense of Rebecca Nurse
Putnam hoped to gain access to Jacobs’s land
Putnam wanted Jacobs to replace Parris as minister
9. How do Abigail and the other girls turn the court against Mary Warren?
They mimic her words and claim that her spirit appears as a threatening bird
They reveal that Mary signed Francis Nurse’s petition
They accuse Mary of planning to poison Parris
They produce a second poppet containing Mary’s needle
10. How does Danforth respond to the 91 people who signed Francis Nurse’s petition?
He dismisses the petition without recording their names
He orders warrants so the signers can be questioned
He accepts the petition as proof that the accused are innocent
He invites them to testify together before the girls
11. What action most directly completes Mary Warren’s reversal at the end of Act 3?
She admits that she placed the needle in the poppet
She withdraws from the proceedings without supporting either side
She accuses Abigail of threatening Elizabeth outside the court
She accuses Proctor of serving the Devil and pressuring her to testify
12. When Mary cannot faint on command, what does this failure most strongly suggest about her earlier behavior?
Her earlier reactions depended on fear, expectation, and the group’s emotional pressure
She deliberately fainted earlier to protect Elizabeth
Danforth has already cured her through questioning
She has lost a supernatural power that Abigail still possesses
13. What central claim does Mary Warren make in her written deposition?
Tituba taught the girls how to summon spirits
Elizabeth instructed Mary to hide the poppet in the house
Mary and the other girls were pretending when they appeared afflicted
Abigail secretly signed the Devil’s book in the forest
14. Why does Elizabeth deny Proctor’s affair when Danforth questions her?
She does not know that the affair occurred
She fears that admitting it will end her pregnancy
She believes Abigail has already confessed to it
She is trying to protect her husband’s name
15. What does Danforth’s offer to spare Elizabeth temporarily because of her pregnancy reveal about his approach?
He is preparing to transfer authority over the trials to Hale
He has concluded that pregnancy proves every accusation false
He plans to let Elizabeth decide the fate of the other prisoners
He treats the delay as a concession that should persuade Proctor to stop challenging the wider proceedings
16. Danforth argues that a person must be either with the court or against it. Which central problem does this reasoning create?
It prevents the judges from hearing testimony from ordained ministers
It makes written evidence more important than spoken testimony
It turns reasonable disagreement or criticism into evidence of guilt
It allows every accused person to avoid trial by confessing privately