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AP English Language

Crucible Exam Mock

Shared by Ashton · Nov 4, 2026 · 2 plays

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50 questions across 12 sections. After every answer you’ll see why each choice is right or wrong, not just the one you picked.

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Open a question to see the answer choices and the correct answer.

Miller describes Abigail on her first entrance as having 'an endless capacity for' what?
  1. A. Mischief
  2. B. Devotion
  3. C. Forgiveness
  4. D. Dissembling ✓

Correct answer: D. 'A strikingly beautiful girl, an orphan, with an endless capacity for dissembling' — i.e., hiding her true feelings and motives.

What traumatic memory does Abigail use to threaten the other girls?
  1. A. Seeing Indians smash her parents' heads on the pillow beside her ✓
  2. B. Being whipped by Parris in front of the congregation for laughing at prayer
  3. C. Nearly drowning in the river
  4. D. Watching her parents hanged as witches in Boston

Correct answer: A. 'I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine... I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!'

In Miller's interjection, why does Thomas Putnam feel wronged by Salem?
  1. A. Parris preached against him by name and sided with the Nurses in the dispute over his father's will
  2. B. Rebecca Nurse refused to sell him land
  3. C. Proctor bought land that Putnam's grandfather had willed to Ann Putnam's family
  4. D. His brother-in-law James Bayley was rejected as minister, and he failed to break his father's will ✓

Correct answer: D. Bayley was turned down despite a 'two-thirds vote'; Putnam also failed to break a will favoring a stepbrother.

Which statement about the Act One quarrel over Parris's deed is accurate?
  1. A. Rebecca supports giving Parris the deed as a sign of charity toward the minister
  2. B. Putnam objects that the house sits on Putnam land, so the deed is his to give
  3. C. Proctor says Parris is the first minister ever to demand the deed to the house ✓
  4. D. Giles owns the meeting house deed

Correct answer: C. 'Mr. Parris, you are the first minister ever did demand the deed to this house.' Parris says he wants 'a mark of confidence.'

What does Hale say when Parris asks why the Devil would strike a minister's house?
  1. A. The Devil gains most by winning the best souls, and who is better than the minister? ✓
  2. B. Tituba invited the Devil in through her Barbados songs, which opened the house to him
  3. C. The Devil always attacks the weakest households first
  4. D. Parris must have secretly sinned, inviting the Devil into his house through his own weakness

Correct answer: A. 'What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister?'