Response 2. Key Ideas and Details (a) What specific similarities does Miller
see between the Salem witch trials of 1692 and the anticommunist
hearings of the 1950s? (b) Speculate: Why do you think The
Crucible is Miller's most-produced play?

Read the excerpt from "a pair of silk stockings." but she went on feeling the soft, sheeny luxurious things—with both hands now, holding them up to see them glisten, and to feel them glide serpent-like through her fingers. which best describes the underlying tone of the excerpt created by the connotations of the words “soft,” ”luxurious,” “glisten,” and “serpent-like”? 1. gloom 2. temptation 3. forgiveness 4. suspicion