Memorable Quotes From "The Crucible"
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A 17th-century Salem teen accuses an ex-lover's wife of witchery in Arthur Miller's literary response to the congressional investigations of the day. See if you can tell me who said each of these memorable quotes from "The Crucible".
Questions and Answers
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"I cannot sleep for dreamin'; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you commin' through some door."- A.
Tituba
- B.
Mary Warren
- C.
Abigail Williams
- 2.
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"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!"- A.
John Proctor
- B.
Reverend Parris
- C.
Sam Johnston
- 3.
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"I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned."- A.
Mary Warren
- B.
Abigail Williams
- C.
Betty Parris
- 4.
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"Well, they should be. They are weighted with authority."- A.
Reverend Samuel Adams
- B.
Reverend John Hale
- C.
Reverend Cotton Matthers
- 5.
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"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!"- A.
Abigail Williams
- B.
Mary Warren
- C.
Betty Parris
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"I will not be ordered to bed anymore, Mr. Proctor. I am 18 years old and a woman ... however single."- A.
Mary Warren
- B.
Abigail Williams
- C.
Betty Parris
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"Abby, I may think softly of you from time to time, but I will cut off my hand before I reach for you again."- A.
Reverend John Hale
- B.
Giles Corey
- C.
John Proctor
- 8.
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"Purge your contempt and give us the name of the man who accused Putnam"- A.
Ezekiel Cheever
- B.
Thomas Putnam
- C.
Samuel Adams
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"This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed iitself with good and befuddled the world."- A.
Reverend Parris
- B.
Reverend John Hale
- C.
Judge Danforth
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"Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came ino this village like a bridegroom to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died, and when I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up."- A.
Reverend Hale
- B.
Reverend Parris
- C.
Judge Danforth
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