Q 01/05
A) Pending appeals
B) Unpaid jail fees
C) Awaiting royal pardons
D) For their own safety
Answer · why
Unpaid jail fees kept them there; Tituba stayed locked up for some thirteen months until an unknown person paid them and took her.
Q 02/05
A) A voice in court
B) Their own evidence
C) A jury
D) A defence lawyer
Answer · why
A defence lawyer was not allowed, so the accused had to defend themselves while their accusers writhed and screamed in the courtroom.
Q 03/05
A) Beverly
B) Lynn
C) Marblehead
D) Danvers
Answer · why
Danvers was then the farming village of Salem Village, which feuded with wealthier Salem Town, where the witch court actually sat.
Q 04/05
A) The Court of Star Chamber
B) The Court of High Commission
C) The Court of Oyer and Terminer
D) The Court of Chancery
Answer · why
The Court of Oyer and Terminer sent 19 people to the gallows before the governor shut it down that October and set up a new court.
Q 05/05
A) Mercy Lewis
B) Abigail Williams
C) Mary Warren
D) Elizabeth Hubbard
Answer · why
Abigail Williams and her cousin Betty began having fits, and a local doctor who could find no physical cause blamed the supernatural.
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