The Salem Witch Trials of 1692
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How many people died as a consequence of the trials?
- Nineteen.
- Thirty-seven according to some sources.
- Seventeen.
- Nobody died but the lives of many were irrevocably changed.
- Twenty-four according to some sources.
Salem Village and Salem Town were the same thing.
Play an interactive map of the witchcraft accussations.
- True
- False
The practice of witchcraft was a crime punishable by death in 17th-century New England.
- True
- False
How long did the trials last?
- From June to July 1692.
- From June to October 1692.
- One year.
- Only one day, June 10th.
There were only magistrates in this trial.
Check the procedure used in the Salem witchcraft trials.
- True
- False
The "witchcraft" court admitted spectral evidence. What was spectral evidence?
- Spectres visited Salem Village.
- The accused became witches and wizards when they died.
- Spectres haunted the jurors.
- The belief in the power of the accused to use their invisible shapes or spectres to torture their victims.
Did the people of Salem Village believe in the Devil?
Tick characteristics of the Puritan code.
Salem was the only place in New England where witches were tried and hanged during the 1600s.
- True
- False
Are these statements true or false? Tick the ones that you consider to be true.
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Tick the activities that the Puritan children could not do.
Abigail Williams and Betty Parris didn't like Tituba’s magical stories and fortune-telling games.
- True.
- False.