The source could be wrong or biased or both.
Miller used the play as a criticism of McCarthyism. The Crucible is about the witch-hunt, plus trials that took place in Salem in 1692. In this play people cared about other people's business and being accused of witchcraft was the most dangerous sin. To avoid being hanged people accused others... so yeah
Cause or become is what the suffix -fy means.
The best answer for this question would be:
D: he has drowned
According to the poem it had stated that the father had
drowned in the ocean, from the in which it stated of the “funeral bell” in the
composition.
