DIRECTIONS: Refer to dialogue, stage directions, and background information in Act I as you an- swer the following questions.
1. What do you learn about Reverend Parris's relationship with the community in Act I? Where do you learn this information? He has people that are after his job. I learned this from him and Abigail’s conversation.
2. What are Abigail's circumstances? What led her to reside with her uncle? Indicate where you find this information. She is an orphan. Her broken relationship with Goody Proctor led to her living with her uncle. I found out this information through reading Abigail’s and Parris conversation.
3. What relationship exists between Abigail and Proctor? How do you know this? Proctor loved Abigail in a very peculiar way.
4. When Mrs. Putnam enters the story, how do the stage directions characterize her? As a woman who has been hurt numerous times by the death of her children.
5. In what way do Mrs. Putnam's words and/or actions in Act I support her description in