Salem Possessed Quizzes

Salem Possessed Quiz 1

1 When did the Trials take place?
1692

1690

1680

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

Sarah Osborne

Martha Cory

Sarah Good
3 Who was the minister at the time of the Trials?
Deodat Lawson

George Burroughs

Samuel Parris

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

John Winthrop

Increase Mather

William Phips
5 How many people were hanged?
54

100

19

20
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?
Spectral evidence

Physical deformity

Testimony to a supernatural attribute

Confession
8 Who was skeptical about spectral evidence?
Increase Mather

Samuel Parris

Cotton Mather

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

dissension

peace

instability
10 How do Americans feel about the Trials?
Fascinated by them

Disgusted by them

Bored by them

Indifferent to them
11 Who was Mercy Short?
An accused witch

A historian of the Trials

An afflicted Salem girl

An afflicted girl from another town
12 In other places, the afflictions were seen as ___.
no big deal

Indian mischief

only demonic

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

Beverly

Northampton

Andover
14 Who was Jonathan Edwards?
A minister in Northampton

A Salem Townsmen

A Boston politician

A Salem Villager
15 Who took the lead in starting the witch crisis?
Young boys

Middle-aged men

Older women

Young girls
16 Many, but not all, of the accused were ___.
servants

outsiders

young

rich
17 Which of the following is false?
Some wealthy women were accused.

The accusations started in the Village.

All of the accused were men.

The accusers did not always know the accused.
18 Most of the accused witches lived in the ___ side of the Village.
southern

eastern

western

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

southern

northern

eastern
20 Salem Town started as a ___ venture.
military

commercial

agricultural

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

Villagers

Farmers

Yeoman
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 were too far away from the Town

they did not have a church of their own
23 Salem Village did not become independent until ___.
1700

1725

1752

1692
24 When the Village gets its first meetinghouse, ___.
they no longer pay any taxes to the Town

it still technically isn't a church

they get an ordained minister

they become independent from Salem Town
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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