- Describe what the audience sees and hears when the scene begins.
- Why have Giles Corey and Francis Nurse come to intervene in the court proceedings?
- Why has John Proctor brought Mary Warren in the court?
- What is Parris’s opinion of John Proctor’s actions?
- How does Mary Warren explain her behaviour and that of Abigail and the other girls?
- What doe Proctor say is his reason for coming to the court?
- What evidence is there that John Proctor does not appear to be a good Christian?
- How does he react to the news that his wife is pregnant?
- Why, in spite of the fact that his wife is ‘temporarily’ saved, does jOhn Proctor persist in trying to give evidence?
- Why does Danforth say that all the people who signed the testament should come to court?
- What is Giles’ evidence the Mr Putnam is using the court for his own purposes?
- How does Danforth explain the importance of the victims’ testifying in a trial for witchcraft?
- What is Mary Warren’s explanation for having changed her mind now?
- How does Abigail’s story about the poppet in Proctor’s house differ from the version we heard earlier?
- What evidence does John Proctor give to contradict Abigail’s version of events?
- How does Mary’s explanation that earlier she had been pretending come to nothing?
- Why is Mary frightened by the behaviour of Abigail and the other girls?
- What does Proctor accuse Abigail of in order to silence her?
- Explain how Danforth uses Elizabeth to test the truth of John’s accusation against Abigail.
- What does Abigail do which wins Mary back to her at the end of the scene?
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