Act+2

Turn to your teammates and discuss the following questions. When you have decided on an answer, copy and paste the questions into a Word document. Place all the names of your group members on the word document. Have one person type the answers to the questions as you discuss them. Save the word document with the following title: **Yourname Act 2** in the H drive. When all the questions are finished, we will share answers as a class to fill in this study guide for future reference.

@Answers to Act 2
 * 1) What is the mood at the beginning of Act Two? Why?
 * 2) What do we learn about John and Elizabeth’s relationship at the beginning of the act?
 * 3) What does Mary give Elizabeth?
 * 4) What news does Mary bring from the court?
 * 5) What does Elizabeth mean when she says “Oh, the noose, the noose is up!”?
 * 6) What does Elizabeth want John to do in town? What will everyone find out if he does this?
 * 7) Why has Rev. Hale come to the Proctor house?
 * 8) To what is John referring when he says “it tells me that a minister may pray to God without he have golden candlesticks upon the altar”?
 * 9) What does Hale ask John to do?
 * 10) What is ironic about John’s omission?
 * 11) What news do Giles Corey and Francis Nurse tell John Proctor?
 * 12) On what basis are they accused?
 * 13) What is the significance of the poppet? How does this serve as “proof” for Elizabeth’s accusation?
 * 14) What does John mean when he says “I’ll tell you what’s walking in Salem – vengeance is walking in Salem”?