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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The protagonist, a farmer hiding an affair.
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John Proctor
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Massachusetts town where it's set.
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Salem
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Mass irrationality that drives the plot.
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Hysteria
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The title 'crucible' literally means this.
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A vessel that purifies metal at high heat
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Year the play was first performed.
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1953
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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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