What is the state of the community at the beginning of the play, as the play progresses and at the end of the play? How did Salem allow outsiders to disrupt its sense of community?

What conditions existed or were created within the community to allow Abigail and the other girls to gain power?

What is ironic about Abigail and the girls being able to seize power over the community?

What role did religion play in the process of seizing power?

What role did fear play in creating authority? How did some people choose to resist authority? Who are they and what form did their resistance take?

John and Abigail’s affair serves as a catalyst for the events of the play, yet historically no such affair ever took place. Why did Arthur Miller use his dramatic license to invent this relationship?

At the end of the play, John Hale has changed his opinion of the trials. What brings about this change?

John Proctor comes very close to admitting guilt so that he may live, and it’s at this moment that Reverend Parris tells him that his refusal to confess is vanity. John could lie, and confess, and stay alive for his wife and children. Do you agree with Parris?

Who is the speaker? read the quotations and answer the questions for each quote. quotation analysis "those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of " what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? 2. "all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are rich and well born, the other the mass of the people…" what is the main idea of the quotation? they divided the people in between rich and poor who do you think is the speaker? hamilton what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? federalists believed that the country should be ruled by the by the best people 3. "laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense." what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker? 4. "a fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired." what is the main idea of the quotation? who do you think is the speaker? what evidence from the background reading leads you to the conclusion about the speaker?

Which word best describes the mood in this sentence? lucia was aglow as she bounced into the room with stories about her summer vacation.

Which tense allows for an event that began in the past to carry into the present moment in time