Scavenger Hunt: A Visit to Salem, Massachusetts 

Name ______________________________________________________ 

Today, you and your group mates will embark on a virtual trip through Salem, Massachusetts, where you will visit several historic sites relevant to the Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter. In this packet, you will find a map of Salem (A.K.A CHHS) marked with five sites you need to visit with your group. These sites include: 

● Judge Hathorne’s Grave ● The Salem Witch Trials Memorial ● Judge Curwen’s House (The Witch House) ● The Custom House ● Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Birthplace 

At each site, you will need to complete two tasks: 

1. Collect the “stamp” provided and adhere it to your map. 2. Read the informative sign and fill in the information on the attached sheets.  

It does not matter what order you visit the sites in, as long as your group stays together and visits each site. You must also stay with your tour guide (the teacher who has been assigned to follow you through Salem). 

The Rules of the Game 

1. Your group must stay together and is not permitted to split up. 2. Your group must stay with its assigned tour guide. 3. Keep your volume down to respect other students in other classes. If you or 

your group gets too loud or disruptive, you risk being disqualified, which could result in a “zero” grade for the assignment. 

4. In order to finish, your group must be the first group to collect and adhere all the historic sites’ stamps to the map AND to correctly fill in the sheets. 

5. Do your best; this assignment will be graded. 6. There will be a prize for the winning group. The winning group is the first 

group to collect and adhere all the historic sites’ stamps to the map AND to correctly fill in the sheets. 

7. Your group can visit the sites in any order you choose, but must remain together and must visit all five sites. 

8. Every group member must have all their stamps properly placed and answers correctly answered for the group to be considered finished. 

   

Visit the five sites around Salem listed below, and answer all the questions pertaining to each site. Write your answer on the line(s) provided.   

● Judge Hathorne’s Grave ● The Salem Witch Trials Memorial ● Judge Curwen’s House (The Witch House) ● The Custom House ● Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Birthplace 

  

Judge Hathorne’s Grave  

________ 1. How old was Judge Hathorne when he died?  ________________2. What is the date of his death (month, day, and year)?  

The Salem Witch Trials Memorial  

________ 3. How many people were executed for witchcraft?  ______________________________________4. Who was the first person hanged for witchcraft?  ______________________________________5. Who dedicated the memorial in 1992?  ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________6. What is the Salem Award for Human Rights and Social Justice?  

The Witch House 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Who was George Curwen? 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________8. Why was his name spelled so many different ways? 

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___________9. What did Betty Parris allegedly see when she tried “egg and glass” divination? 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________10. What happened after Betty Parris confessed?  

___________________________________________________________________________________________________11. Whose accusation led to the beginning of the end of the witch trials? 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________12. What is significant about Judge Samuel Sewall? 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________13. Who is Cotton Mathers? How is he relevant to Reverend Parris? 

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________14. What did Revered Parris do after the children in his house started to display possible signs of witchcraft? Why? What does this tell us about the kind of person he was? 

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________15. What is spectral evidence? 

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16. What started the witch trials? 

The Custom House 

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_________________________________17. What three federal jobs did Hawthorne hold? 

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________18. Why did Hawthrone lose his job? 

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 19. What tone does Hawthorne use when describing his office at the Custom House? Does he seem to have a positive or negative outlook on it?  

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 20. Describe the view from the front of the Custom House. 

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Birthplace 

_______________21. What year was Hawthorne’s birthplace built? 

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________22. Describe the house. What does it look like? How is it landscaped? Etc. 

   

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