Act 4

Question 1

“I come to do the Devil’s work. I come to counsel Christians they should belie themselves. There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!?”

Answer 1

Act 4: Hale to Danforth

Question 2

“I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; … and when I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up”

Answer 2

Act 4: Hale to Elizabeth

Question 3

“A cell in Salem jail, that fall”
“a high barred window”
“a great, heavy door”

Answer 3

Act 4

Question 4

“He is another man, bearded, filthy, his eyes misty as though webs had overgrown them”

Answer 4

Act: Description of Proctor

Question 5

[His breast heaving, his eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect.]

Answer 5

Act 4: Proctor

Question 6

“I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor. Not enough to wave a banner with it, but white enough to keep it from such dogs.”

Answer 6

Act 4: Proctor

Question 7

“No, sir, it is a bitter night and I have no fire here”

Answer 7

Act 4: Herrick to Danforth

Question 8

“In darkness but for the moonlight seeping through the bars”

Answer 8

Act 4

Question 9

“the new sun [is] pouring in”

Answer 9

Act 4

Question 10

“the final drumroll crash[ing], then heighten[ing] violently”

Answer 10

Act 4

Question 11

“I should hang ten thousand that dared rise against the law, and an ocean of tears could not melt the resolution of statutes”

Answer 11

Act 4: Danforth to Hale