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Grades 11 and 12 - Literature - Senior High School - The Crucible - Context
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MCQs on the context of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible.

Grades 11 and 12 - Literature - Senior High School - The Crucible - Context
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1. The form of government in seventeenth-century Massachusetts Bay Colony is known as which of the following?
2. Which one of the following is the term associated with the optimism prevalent in the United States in the mid-twentieth century?
3. Why was Miller held in contempt of the U.S. Congress?
4. What information does Miller add to the end of the play, in the section entitled, 'Echoes Down the Corridor'?
5. What is meant by the term 'McCarthyism'?
6. The Crucible was first performed in which year?
7. Which of the following caused Miller's father to lose his business?
8. Which of the following is true, according to Miller's notes in the text?
9. The actions of which of the following bodies is represented in the play by Reverend Hale's investigations as well as the trials conducted by Danforth, Hathorne and the other judges?
10. In his notes to the play, Miller writes, 'In the countries of the Communist ideology all resistance of any import is linked to the totally malign capitalist succubi, and in America any man who is not reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.' What does this mean?