Salem Possessed Quizzes

Salem Possessed Quiz 1

1 When did the Trials take place?
1790

1690

1680

1692
2 Who was not among the first to be accused?
Tituba

Sarah Good

Martha Cory

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

George Burroughs

Deodat Lawson

Samuel Parris
4 Who was the governor at the time of the Trials?
William Phips

Increase Mather

John Winthrop

Edmund Andros
5 How many people were hanged?
100

20

19

54
6 The best type of evidence was ___.
testimony to a supernatural attribute

confession

physical deformity

spectral evidence
7 What was the most problematic form of evidence?
Confession

Physical deformity

Spectral evidence

Testimony to a supernatural attribute
8 Who was skeptical about spectral evidence?
Deodat Lawson

Samuel Parris

Cotton Mather

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

dissension

instability

peace
10 How do Americans feel about the Trials?
Disgusted by them

Indifferent to them

Fascinated by them

Bored by them
11 Who was Mercy Short?
An accused witch

An afflicted girl from another town

An afflicted Salem girl

A historian of the Trials
12 In other places, the afflictions were seen as ___.
only demonic

Indian mischief

no big deal

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

Beverly

Northampton

Andover
14 Who was Jonathan Edwards?
A Salem Townsmen

A Salem Villager

A minister in Northampton

A Boston politician
15 Who took the lead in starting the witch crisis?
Young boys

Older women

Young girls

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

servants

outsiders

young
17 Which of the following is false?
The accusations started in the Village.

All of the accused were men.

The accusers did not always know the accused.

Some wealthy women were accused.
18 Most of the accused witches lived in the ___ side of the Village.
northern

southern

western

eastern
19 Most of the accusers were from the ___ side.
western

eastern

northern

southern
20 Salem Town started as a ___ venture.
agricultural

commercial

religious

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

Yeoman

Villagers

Farmers
22 Villagers were frustrated in the earliest days for all the following reasons except ___.
they had to supply the Town with food

their taxes went to pay for things in the Town

they did not have a church of their own

they were too far away from the Town
23 Salem Village did not become independent until ___.
1752

1692

1725

1700
24 When the Village gets its first meetinghouse, ___.
they no longer pay any taxes to the Town

they get an ordained minister

they become independent from Salem Town

it still technically isn't a church
25 Which of the following statements is true?
Salem Village wants to be independent but the Town will not let it.

Salem Village is less mercantile.

Salem Town does not take Salem Village seriously.

All of these

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