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The Crucible

11th grade American literature · Medium · 20-25 min

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This board helps players review Literature · Arthur Miller through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting & Plot, Themes, Symbols & Setting, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Characters

    The protagonist, a farmer hiding an affair.

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    John Proctor

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  • Setting & Plot

    Massachusetts town where it's set.

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    Salem

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  • Themes

    Mass irrationality that drives the plot.

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    Hysteria

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  • Symbols & Setting

    The title 'crucible' literally means this.

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    A vessel that purifies metal at high heat

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  • Trivia & Quotes

    Year the play was first performed.

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    1953

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  • Allegory & Devices

    The Red Scare-era senator Miller responded to.

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    Joseph McCarthy

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Characters

$100 — The protagonist, a farmer hiding an affair.
John Proctor
$200 — His wife, accused of witchcraft.
Elizabeth Proctor
$300 — The vengeful young woman leading the accusations.
Abigail Williams
$400 — The reverend whose daughter starts the panic.
Reverend Parris
$500 — The judge who refuses to back down.
Deputy Governor Danforth

Setting & Plot

$100 — Massachusetts town where it's set.
Salem
$200 — Year of the historical witch trials in the play.
1692
$300 — What the girls were doing in the forest at the start.
Dancing (with Tituba)
$400 — The 'spectral evidence' relies on this.
Visions/dreams of the accused (not real evidence)
$500 — How Proctor dies.
He is hanged

Themes

$100 — Mass irrationality that drives the plot.
Hysteria
$200 — Theme of public name and integrity.
Reputation
$300 — The clash between strict religious law and personal conscience.
Authority and morality
$400 — The cycle of accusation Abigail starts.
Revenge / scapegoating
$500 — The 20th-century event Miller paralleled.
McCarthyism / Red Scare

Symbols & Setting

$100 — The title 'crucible' literally means this.
A vessel that purifies metal at high heat
$200 — Symbolically, the crucible is this for the characters.
A severe trial that tests character
$300 — The poppet (doll) is used as evidence to accuse this character.
Elizabeth Proctor
$400 — The forest at the start of the play symbolizes this.
Sin / the unknown / chaos
$500 — The court symbolizes this.
Corrupted institutional authority

Trivia & Quotes

$100 — Year the play was first performed.
1953
$200 — The play allegorizes this committee's hearings.
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
$300 — Proctor's famous final line: 'Because it is my ___!'
Name
$400 — The slave from Barbados who 'confesses' first.
Tituba
$500 — Real number of people executed in the historical trials.
20 (19 hanged + 1 pressed)

Allegory & Devices

$100 — The Red Scare-era senator Miller responded to.
Joseph McCarthy
$200 — Miller himself was called before HUAC and refused to do this.
Name names of suspected communists
$300 — The dramatic device that makes Proctor's death so powerful.
Tragic hero / catharsis
$400 — Genre of the play.
Tragedy (and historical/political allegory)
$500 — The audience knows the girls are lying — this is called this.
Dramatic irony

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