Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Quiz: Salem Witch Trials

1. The Salem Witch Trials began on March 1, 1692, in what colony?

Massachusetts Bay

New Hampshire

Connecticut Colony

Delaware Colony

Colony and Dominion of Virginia

2. Historians believe that what war initially put a strain on Salem society?

Queen Anne's War

Queen Mary's War

King William's War

King Phillip's War

King Parris's War

3. In addition to war, what was another plausible cause for what would become mass hysteria?

Measles outbreak

Small pox epidemic

Fire

Blizzard

Witchcraft

4. How old were the two girls who first accused others of witchcraft?

Eight and Nine

Seven and Six

Five and Four

Nine and Eleven

One and Two

5. Over a 150 women and men were jailed during the year of the Salem Witch Trials, how many were eventually convicted and executed?

10

12

15

19

20

6. What act generally saved people from the gallows?

Confession

Witchcraft

Contrition

Bribery

Pardon

7. What type of evidence what declared inadmissible and thus ended the witch trials?

Circumstancial

Motivation

Spectral

Memorial

Religious

8. Who wrote the play The Crucible in 1953 which dramatizes the Salem Witch Trials?

Thornton Wilder

Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

Eugene O'Neill

William Faulkner

9. The play The Crucible is an allegory for what time period?

McCarthyism

Inter-war America

Vietnam War

Industrialization

Colonialism

10. In 1976, scientists hypothesized that what might have caused the witch hunts of 1692-1693?

Lead

Fungus

Measles

Smallpox

Scurvy