Salem Possessed Quizzes

Salem Possessed Quiz 1

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1 When did the Trials take place?

1680

1692

1690

1790
2 Who was not among the first to be accused?

Sarah Good

Martha Cory

Tituba

Sarah Osborne
3 Who was the minister at the time of the Trials?

George Burroughs

Deodat Lawson

Samuel Parris

James Bayley
4 Who was the governor at the time of the Trials?

William Phips

John Winthrop

Edmund Andros

Increase Mather
5 How many people were hanged?

54

20

19

100
6 The best type of evidence was ___.

confession

testimony to a supernatural attribute

spectral evidence

physical deformity
7 What was the most problematic form of evidence?

Physical deformity

Spectral evidence

Testimony to a supernatural attribute

Confession
8 Who was skeptical about spectral evidence?

Cotton Mather

Samuel Parris

Deodat Lawson

Increase Mather
9 The colony's political situation at the time of the Trials was marked by ___.

peace

dissension

instability

modernization
10 How do Americans feel about the Trials?

Bored by them

Indifferent to them

Fascinated by them

Disgusted by them
11 Who was Mercy Short?

An afflicted Salem girl

A historian of the Trials

An accused witch

An afflicted girl from another town
12 In other places, the afflictions were seen as ___.

Indian mischief

no big deal

only demonic

divine
13 Where did the "Little Awakening" take place?

Andover

Northampton

Beverly

Boston
14 Who was Jonathan Edwards?

A Salem Villager

A Boston politician

A minister in Northampton

A Salem Townsmen
15 Who took the lead in starting the witch crisis?

Young boys

Young girls

Older women

Middle-aged men
16 Many, but not all, of the accused were ___.

outsiders

servants

young

rich
17 Which of the following is false?

All of the accused were men.

Some wealthy women were accused.

The accusers did not always know the accused.

The accusations started in the Village.
18 Most of the accused witches lived in the ___ side of the Village.

western

northern

eastern

southern
19 Most of the accusers were from the ___ side.

northern

southern

eastern

western
20 Salem Town started as a ___ venture.

military

agricultural

commercial

religious
21 The people of Salem Village were initially called the ___.

Yeoman

Freemen

Villagers

Farmers
22 Villagers were frustrated in the earliest days for all the following reasons except ___.

they had to supply the Town with food

they did not have a church of their own

they were too far away from the Town

their taxes went to pay for things in the Town
23 Salem Village did not become independent until ___.

1752

1725

1700

1692
24 When the Village gets its first meetinghouse, ___.

it still technically isn't a church

they no longer pay any taxes to the Town

they get an ordained minister

they become independent from Salem Town
25 Which of the following statements is true?

Salem Town does not take Salem Village seriously.

Salem Village wants to be independent but the Town will not let it.

Salem Village is less mercantile.

All of these

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