Tituba: the first accused witch - Questions

1. Listen to the story and answer the following questions about Tituba.

• Who was Tituba? 
  
• Who was Reverend Samuel Parris in Salem?
  
• What did she do for the family?
  
• After the first crisis, what did she do to find who was cursing the girls?
  
• What did the girls do in response to that?
  
• Why did she change her mind?
  
• What happened to her after that?
  
• What did she do during the trial?
  
• What does the video say about her testimony (=témoignage)? Where did she spend the next months?
  
• What did she do during the Salem Witch trials?
  
• After the trials, “charges were dropped”. What happened to her?
  
• Do we know what she did after that?

2. Analyse the information from the video and share what you think with your classmates. In your opinion, why did she confess?