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The Crucible - Setting

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This senior high school English Literature quiz questions you on setting in Arthur Miller's The Crucible. Setting in a literary text firstly consists of the location and the time in which the events take place. It is easy to forget that texts can have several settings, since events might occur in very different places or times. Buildings and spaces are also separate settings within the wider setting.

1 .

Which of the following is true of the trial scene?

The audience never knows what happens during the trials

The trial takes place in Salem jail

The trial scene is set in the meeting house and the trial itself occurs on stage before action shifts to the vestry room in the next scene

The trial takes place off stage, with only the voices of the judge and the accused being heard through the open doors leading from the vestry room

The real trial takes place as the accused are questioned, bullied and tormented into their confused confessions. Once the accused reach the court, the verdict is a foregone conclusion. The near impossibility of changing the outcome is emphasized by the trials taking place off stage

2 .

What is the Christian religious group to which the characters in the play belong?

Puritans

Lutherans

Methodists

Catholics

Puritans disagreed with the use of any ritual or use of objects in religious worship, preferring instead to read and listen to the Bible and to sermons. Some of the activities to which Abigail initially confesses relate to the rituals thought to be magical

3 .

Which of the following is true of the spaces in which the action of the play takes place?

They are all comfortable, home-like spaces

They are large, public spaces

They are small, confined and primarily private spaces

The spaces grow ever more light and airy

The spaces grow ever more private and confined. Even the Proctors' living room is described as being "low and dark". The vestry room is much more private and confined than the meeting room in which the trial is held. This sense of private confinement emphasizes the lonely entrapment of the many accused

4 .

Act II takes place in the "common room" of the Proctor house. The homey atmosphere of the setting is disturbed by which of the following?

The sound of Elizabeth singing to their children

The gun which John Proctor leans against the wall

The smell of the food cooking over the fire

John's washing of his hands and face

John tells Elizabeth that he has been planting all the way to the edge of the forest; the presence of his gun brings the awareness of surrounding danger into the home. Danger does not enter the home from the forest, however, but from the other inhabitants of the town

5 .

The audience first meets most of the characters, including Abigail, Reverend Parris, John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse, Reverend Hale and the Putnams where?

In the forest

In the meeting room

In Betty's bedroom

In the Proctors' living room

A continual procession of people come into Betty's room, either out of curiosity, or because they have been summoned, or because they are seeking someone else who is there. At the center of all this motion lies Betty in stillness on her bed, aware of all that is going on and hearing the wild surmises of the other characters

6 .

In which year is the play set?

1592

1692

1792

1892

The witch trials took place between 1692 and 1693. The play begins in the spring of 1692 and ends in the autumn of the same year

7 .

Which of the following settings is immediately associated with the practice of magic?

The meeting room

The bedroom in Parris's house

The river

The forest

The forest symbolizes all that is dark, wild and untamed. Abigail and the other girls are accused of dancing like the heathen, or the native (non-Christian) inhabitants of the area. It is important to note that Reverend Parris's own reason for going into the forest is never given

8 .

Act IV opens in darkness, with "moonlight seeping through the bars". What is significant about this setting?

Those convicted of witchcraft will be hung at daybreak and the timing gives Act IV a sense of urgency

The darkness is emblematic of the spiritual and moral darkness into which the town has descended

The darkness of the setting provides dramatic potential, so that the sun, when it rises in a new dawn at the end of the play, brings death, rather than life

All of the above

Darkness and light alternate throughout the play, which begins with the morning sunlight in Betty's room and ends with the sunlight on Elizabeth Proctor's face

9 .

What is taking place in Andover in the autumn while the Salem executions are in progress?

Rebellion

The discovery of dozens of further cases of witchcraft

The entire population of Andover confesses to practicing witchcraft

The government orders an end to the trials in Andover

Reverend Parris reports that the people of Andover have thrown out the court. He fears a similar riot in the town when Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor hang

10 .

In which country is The Crucible set?

Germany

Soviet Union

United States of America

Ireland

The play is based on historical events which took place in Salem, Massachusetts

Author: Sheri Smith