1) Take a look at the exchange below. Note Cheever's answer to the question "What signifies a poppet? What do his replies indicate about his knowledge of the significance of the poppet?
Elizabeth: Oh! Going for it. Why, this is Mary's.
Cheever, shyly: Would you please to give it to me?
Elizabeth, handing it to him, asks Hale: Has the courts discovered a text it poppets now? Textual evidence
Cheever carefully holding to popper: Do you keep any others in this house?
Proctor: No, nor this one either till tonight. What signifies a poppet?
Cheever Why, a poppet-he gingerly turns the poppet over a poppet may signityNow, woman,
will you please come with me?
hD

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant