Act One Scene Ten

Question 1

TITUBA No—no, chicken blood, I give her chicken blood!

Answer 1

Woman, have you enlisted these children for the devil?

Question 2

TITUBA No-no, sir, I don‘t truck with the devil.

Answer 2

Why can she not wake? Are you silencing this child?

Question 3

TITUBA I love me Betty!

Answer 3

Are you gathering souls for the Devil?

Question 4

ABIGAIL Sometimes I wake and find myself standing in the open doorway and not a stitch on my body! I hear her singing her Barbados songs and tempting me with—

Answer 4

{TITUBA Mister Reverend, I never-

{HALE Tituba I want you to wake this child.

Question 5

TITUBA I have no power on this child, sir.

Answer 5

You most certainly do. Free her from it now! When did you compact with the Devil?

Question 6

TITUBA No-no, don‘t hang Tituba. I tell him I don‘t desire to work for him, sir.

Answer 6

Who, the Devil? Be you a good Christian woman, Tituba?

Question 7

TITUBA Ay, sir, a good Christian woman.

Answer 7

And you love these little children?

Question 8

TITUBA Oh, yes, sir, I don‘t desire to hurt little children.

Answer 8

And you love God, Tituba?

Question 9

TITUBA I love God with all my bein‘.

Answer 9

Then open yourself, Tituba- open yourself and let God‘s holy light shine on you.

Question 10

TITUBA Oh, bless the Lord.

Answer 10

When the devil comes to you does he ever come with another person? Perhaps another person in the village? Someone you know.

Question 11

TITUBA It was black dark, and I—

Answer 11

Tituba. You must have no fear to tell us who they are, do you understand? We will protect you. You know that, do you not?

Question 12

TITUBA Aye, sir, oh, I do.

Answer 12

You are God’s instrument put in our hands to discover the Devil’s agents among us. You are selected, Tituba, you are chosen to help us cleanse our village. —face God, Tituba, and God will protect you.

Question 13

TITUBA Oh, God, protect Tituba!

Answer 13

Who came to you with the Devil? Two? Three? Four? How many?

Question 14

ANN I knew it! Goody Osburn were midwife to me three times. I begged you, Thomas, did I not? I begged him not to call Osburn because I feared her, my babies always shriveled in her hands…

Answer 14

Take courage, you must give us all their names. How can you bear to see these children suffering? Tituba; the devil is out and preying on them like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb…God will-