Crucible Quotes

Question 1

..blackening my name.. ..lies.. ..cold, sniveling..

Answer 1

..you bend to her!

Abilgail > John 1

Question 2

Gah! ..how strong you are,

Answer 2

John Proctor!

Abigail 1

Question 3

..I will come to you in the black of some terrible night

Answer 3

..bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you.

Abigail > girls 1

Question 4

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep

Answer 4

and put knowledge in my heart!

Abigail > John 1

Question 5

I danced for the devil..

Answer 5

..I saw Sarah Good with the Devil!

Abigail > everyone 1

Question 6

You will confess..

Answer 6

..or I whip you to death, Tituba!

Parris 1

Question 7

I fought to bend these stiff-necked people to me..

Answer 7

..when respect is rising.. ..you compromise [this]

Parris > Abigail

Question 8

either obedience..

Answer 8

..or church will burn like Hell

Parris > everyone 1

Question 9

..not some preaching farmer with a book..

Answer 9

..a graduate of Harvard College.

Parris > Giles/ John 1

(moaning about wage)

Question 10

I am certain there be

Answer 10

no element of witchcraft here.

Parris > everyone 1

Question 11

Can you speak.. ..without [landing] in hell?

Answer 11

I am sick of hell!

Proctor > Parris 1

Question 12

I moved from there to please you..

Answer 12

..everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Proctor > Elizabeth 2

Question 13

never knew.. ..the world..

Answer 13

..gone daft with nonsense

Proctor > Hale 2

Question 14

Heaven/ Hell grapple.. ..old pretense ripped away—

Answer 14

make your peace!

Proctor > Warren 2

Question 15

…see his filthy face! ..my face..

Answer 15

..because it is my name.. ..I cannot have another in my life!

Proctor > everyone 4

Question 16

..I see some shred of goodness..

Answer 16

..not enough to weave a banner.. ..but to keep from such dogs

Proctor (himself) 4

Question 17

..magistrate sits in your heart judges you..

Answer 17

..never thought you but a good man, John

Elizabeth > John 2

Question 18

Whatever you will do,

Answer 18

it is a good man that does it.

Elizabeth > John 4

Question 19

..no honest love could come to me!

Answer 19

..suspicion kissed you when I did

Elizabeth > John 4

Question 20

..whatever promise she may sense—

Answer 20

break it, John, break it

Elizabeth > John 2

Question 21

He have his goodness now.

Answer 21

God forbid I take it from him!

Elizabeth > John 4

(pre-hanging)

Question 22

there are wheels within wheels in this village,

Answer 22

and fires within fires!

Mrs. Putnam > Rebecca Nurse

Question 23

I have a sense for heat, John,

Answer 23

burning in your lonliness

Question 24

You will not use me

Answer 24

I am no Sarah Good or Tituba

John 4 > Danforth