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The Crucible Act III Reading Quiz Directions: Write a well-developed short answer for each of the questions below. Be sure to use direct evidence from the text to support your answer and cite the page numbers. 1. Discuss the judges who sit before the proceedings: Hathorne and Danforth. What is revealed about their personalities and how they view their job? What is the only concern that the court has? What is missing within the proceedings to make them fair? 2. Giles Corey and John Proctor approach the court with a signed deposition. Hathorne informs them that the informants must appear before the court. What danger is there for these people to appear? What does this say about the proceedings within the court? Is this seen in today’s judicial system? What protection is there now that was not present then. 3. What is the significance of Reverend Hale’s observation that “every defense is considered an attack upon the court”? What is the significance of Danforth’s assertion that “a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it”? 4. Why does Elizabeth Proctor lie when she is questioned by Danforth? How might the outcome of the witchcraft hysteria have been different if she had told the truth? What does this reveal about her character? 5. Discuss Proctor’s internal conflict within this act. What does it take for him to come to the court and reveal the truth? Why does he do it? What is consequence he faces in telling the truth? When Elizabeth lies what happens to Proctor? 6. Discuss Mary Warren’s testimony to the court. Why does she recant her deposition? How could things have been different had she not recanted? Why does she accuse Proctor of witchcraft? 7. Discuss Giles Corey’s character. What in his character sets him up to be accused as a witch? Why does he not change his personality to appease the court? What does this reveal about him as a person? What is important about his character?