The Crucible Cornell Notes – Act I



The Crucible

Cornell Notes – Act I

Use the CORNELL NOTE FORMAT TO COMPLETE each set of notes. The concepts/ terms/ ideas/ vocabulary words appear in BOLD letters and should be placed on the left hand column of your CORNELL NOTES.

Act I (pages 166-169) 30 points

1. What is the setting of Act 1 (Where and When,)

2. Write down 5 characteristics of Salem

3. How are the Puritans portrayed?

4. What is the meaning of heathen?

5. What were the main reasons for the witch-hunts?

6. ingratiating

7. communal

8. autocratic

9. ideology

10. perpetuation

11. antagonistic

12. insoluble

SUMMARY SECTION – 5 points

How are the Salem witch trials paradoxical?

Act I (pages 170-173) 20 points

1. What were Abigail and Tituba doing in the forest? Infer

2. Why is Parris upset with Abigail?

3. Abigail’s reputation

4. Abigail’s lies

5. 2 indications of Putnam’s vindictiveness

SUMMARY SECTION – 5 points

What does Reverand Hale’s arrival foreshadow?

Act I (pages 174-178) 30 points

1. Three characteristics of Mary Warren

2. contention

3. faction

4. partisan

5. calumny

6. Abigail’s feelings for John

7. John’s feelings for Abigail

8. Abigail’s characterization of Elizabeth

9. iniquity

SUMMARY SECTION – 5 points

Characterize Rebecca Nurse

Act I (pages 179-184) 30 points

1. How does Rebecca explain Betty and Ruth’s sickness?

2. What is Putnam’s interpretation of the children’s condition?

3. What is Proctor’s opinion?

4. baffled

5. prodigious

6. fathom

7. Putnam’s accusation of Proctor

8. Proctor’s reason for avoiding the church

9. ascertain

10. diablslism

11. inculcation

12. malevolence

13. Martin Luther

14. Inquisition

15. Hale’s mission in Salem

SUMMARY SECTION – 5 points

Summarize how Hale has described the Devil

Act I (pages 185-189) 20 points

1. Gile’s comments about reading

2. 3 things that Tituba makes Abigail do

3. Why does Abigail accuse Tituba of witchery?

SUMMARY SECTION – 5 points

Summarize the dialogue that goes on between Tituba, Hale, and Putnam

Extra Credit/ Discussion Questions – Act I

2-5 points per correct answer

1. "So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their

New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong and deceitful ideas." What is the irony in

that statement?

2. Explain how the witch-hunt years were a time of "general revenge."

3. Identify Tituba, Abigail, and Betty.

4. Why does Mrs. Putnam believe there are witches in Salem?

5. Why is Thomas Putnam bitter?

6. Parris says, "Oh, Abigail, what proper payment for my charity! Now I am undone!" What

does that mean?

7. What is Mary's argument to Abby?

8. Describe Proctor.

9. What happened between Abigail and John Proctor prior to the opening of the play?

10. What was the "sign" that Betty was bewitched?

11. Identify Francis and Rebecca Nurse.

12. Explain the political relationship between the Putnam and Nurse families.

13. What did Rebecca do to Betty?

14. What is Rebecca's explanation of the girls' behavior?

15. "There are wheels within wheels in this village and fires within fires." Explain.

16. What is Proctor's reason for his not regularly attending church?

17. What does Parris want?

18. Giles says, "Think on it now, it's a deep thing, and dark as a pit." To what is he referring

literally and symbolically?

19. What do Putnam and Proctor argue about? What does this show?

20. Who is Rev. John Hale, and why does he come to Salem?

21. Hale says, "They [the books] must be [heavy]; they are weighted with authority." What is the

significance of this remark?

22. To what did Tituba confess? Why?

23. What do the girls do at the end of Act One?

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