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1
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What happened in the winter of 1691?

A

it got really cold

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2
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Why did the Puritans believe the winter of 1691 was cold?

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God was punishing them

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3
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Who lanched witches in the air?

A

Germany

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4
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Who did hte people pick as witches?

A

weakest person

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5
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What characteristics would people use to call someone a witch?

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Cant be too good, smart, outspoken, or pretty

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6
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What was the devil’s different forms?

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Monkey Man
Rooster
Fast moving turtle

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7
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What did the devil look like when he is a man?

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tall with black and red

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8
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How old was the dividing law (was an adult)?

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14

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9
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A majority of girls that accused the withes were mostly what?

A

fatherless

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10
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If youre a doctor that cannot fix people, who do you blame?

A

witchcraft

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11
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What did Cotton Mather write?

A

Wonders of the Invisible World

wrote about the witch trials

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12
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What did people do after big cases?

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write books over them

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13
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What did Cotton Mather study?

A

Germs and when he took it to the medical board, they thought he was crazy

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14
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Why was Cotton believing in germs irony?

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He believed in witches before germs

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15
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What was Cotton Mather charged with?

A

craziness and was beaten

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16
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Who wrote the Scarlet letter?

A

Hawthorne

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17
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Where was Hawthorne from?

A

Salem

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18
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Why did Hawthorne write about in Scarlett?

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he found out his ancestor was a judge

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19
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Where did he spend 12 years perfecting his writing?

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his moms house

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20
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Who was Hawthorne friends with?

A

transcenital people (spiritual purity through nature)

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21
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Who was Hawthorne hailed by?

A

the author of Moby Dick

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22
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When was Hawthorne highly conconized?

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during his life

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23
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What was Hawthorne’s main characteristic?

A

dramatic

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24
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What was Hawthorne’s dominite view?

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evil dominate view of the war

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25
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When was the Salem witch trials?

A

1692

26
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When was the Scarlett letter written?

A

1850

27
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When was the Crucible written?

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1951

28
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Who wrote the Crucible?

A

Miller

29
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What was the Scarlett Letter’s plot?

A

A young women comes to America 2 years before her husband. She has an affair with the minister and has his baby. She must wear an A on her clothes for adultry. One day when she is being shamed her husband shows up. He remains annonomous and becomes a doctor since he is educated. He becomes friends with the minister and makes him feel guilty for what he did until he died. The wife and daughter leave and when the wife dies, she is buried next to the minister

30
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Who is Hester Prynne?

A

protagonist
has an A for shaming (scarlet letter)
looks pretty
married Chilingworth but doesnt love him
passionate and becomes strong by being an outcast
smarter intelligently and emotionally than the other characters
can see the community differently than others

31
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Who is Pearl?

A

Her mom’s greatest treasure because her mom gave everything up for her
Curious, perception, smart
her mom is puzzled by her
elfish quality that made her seem unhuman

32
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Who is Roger Chilingworth?

A 
Hester's husband
showed up after 2 years to see her being shamed
He was captured by indians
He is annonomous
He disguised as a doctor because he is smart
Wants to find the father of the child
Becomes friends with the minister
Unattractive and wears black
Wants to dig the knife into Dimmesdale
33
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Who is Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale?

A

Young minister
father of pearl
he has guilt and is eaten mentally and physically from it
intelligent and emotional
persuasive and gifted speaker
lives in a state of inner conflict and battling sinful feelings and desires to confess
He gets sick from it and gets a rash and heart disease

34
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Who is govener Bellingham?

A

older man who spends most of his time conferring with the town fathers
rule follower but is influenced by dimmesdale
he worries about everyone except himself (irony)

35
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What does Bellinghams overgrown and disheveled garden represent?

A

his house

he is the keeper of the order of society when in reality his sister, who lives in his house, is a witch

36
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Who is mistress Hibbins?

A

widow
lives with brother in govener house
makes many public appearances because of her brother
symbol of hidden evil and hypocracy

37
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Who is Reverend John Wilson?

A

Typical puritan minister where his sermons focus on hell, fire, brimstone to use fear as a motivator
Likes strict rules and policies
Likes Dimmesdale

38
Q

Who is the Narrator?

A

Works at a customs house and finds a book in the attic
After he loses his job he decides to write on Hesters story
He is interested in writing about america and its religious roots but feels guilty about writing for a career
Shares simularities with the real Hawthorne

39
Q

What country had rampant witch hunts in Europe?

A

spain

40
Q

How many people died in the European witch hunts between 14 century to 16 century?

A

40-50 thousand

41
Q

The _ Inquisition was to oppse witchcraft and expose heresy?

A

Spanish

42
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Whch church was the head of the Spanish Inuisition?

A

Roman Catholic

43
Q

What concrete evidence proves someone is a witch?

A

Devil’s mark: poked it and it doesnt hurt
Swimming: float or sink
Torture

44
Q

Witch craft was a crime against what?

A

church and state

45
Q

Where was the first witch trial in America?

A

Charelstown

46
Q

How many people lived in Salem in 1692?

A

500

47
Q

How were women expected to behave?

A

silent
mothers
submissive toward husband

48
Q

What voodoo trick did Tituba show reverand Parris’s daughters?

A

egg white + candle = shows face of husband

49
Q

Tibuta, Osborne and Goode had waht in common?

A

accused of being witches

50
Q

What kind of unusual evidence did the witchcraft trials in Salem allow?

A

Spectral or only the accusationer could see it

51
Q

Ann Putnam said Goode tried to get her to sign what?

A

The Devil Book

52
Q

In the courtroom, the girls acted crazy and claimed the _ of Goode was attacking them

A

spectral

53
Q

who did Tituba say came to her and bid me to service him?

A

devil

54
Q

How long did Tibuta’s testomony last?

A

3 days

55
Q

How many names were in the Devil’s book and how many coud she read?

A

9;6

56
Q

Nurse’s arest marked a change in the what?

A

socail status of the women being arrested

57
Q

How old was the youngest accused and what did they have to make for them?

A

4; smaller chains

58
Q

What was Tituba’s fate?

A

she was sold back into slavery

59
Q

Which girl was the only person to apologize?

A

Ann Putran Jr

60
Q

Shortly before whose wives were to be accused were the witch trials moved and shut down?

A

Govener Phips

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