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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Drummond asks Brady why God gives people the ability to what?
(a) Teach.
(b) Think.
(c) Procreate.
(d) Speak.

2. What does Brady suggest the prayer meeting might do for Hornbeck?
(a) Entertain.
(b) Enlighten.
(c) Inspire.
(d) Anger.

3. Where does Act 2, Scene 1 take place?
(a) The courthouse lawn.
(b) The town square.
(c) Cates' jail cell.
(d) The courtroom.

4. According to Drummond, what is more important than what is "right"?
(a) Honor.
(b) Persistence.
(c) Truth.
(d) Excellence.

5. Whose testimony does Cates interrupt?
(a) His mother.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Reverend Brown.
(d) Howard.

6. Brady asks if Cates has ever taught from what book?
(a) Science: Creation in Two Forms.
(b) Genesis.
(c) The World Brittanica.
(d) The one the school told him to.

7. The judge is willing to hear an expert on what?
(a) Geology.
(b) The Bible.
(c) Astrophysics.
(d) Darwinism.

8. What does Brady complain to Hornbeck about?
(a) The Bible.
(b) His terrible writing skills.
(c) The heat.
(d) The bias against him.

9. What does Cates suggest Howard could become?
(a) Heartless.
(b) A scientist.
(c) A Godless person.
(d) Insane.

10. What does Drummond suggest about Brady and how he lives his life?
(a) His vanity will get him in the end.
(b) He is on a path to self-destruction.
(c) He is behind the times.
(d) He is the perfect representation of a monkey.

11. In court, Drummond says he wants religion to stop doing what?
(a) Controlling U.S. education.
(b) Scaring its followers.
(c) Persecuting non-believers.
(d) Recruiting new believers.

12. Initially, who does Reverend Brown ask for God to strike down during the prayer meeting?
(a) The judge.
(b) Drummond.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Cates.

13. What does the judge say is not on trial?
(a) Rachel and her morals.
(b) The townspeople and their beliefs.
(c) The right to think.
(d) Curiosity of the heavens.

14. Which witness is dismissed, prior to Drummond's cross-examination?
(a) Howard.
(b) No one.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Reverend Brown.

15. What is the crowd asked to do during the prayer meeting?
(a) Shun those who are against them.
(b) Run Drummond out of town.
(c) Pray for Cates.
(d) Affirm their beliefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Drummond's first witness not allowed to speak?

2. Who chants responses during the prayer meeting?

3. Who does Brady claim he will fight, no matter what?

4. What book does Drummond attempt to read out loud in court?

5. What belief does Brady suggest to the crowd is equally Christian?

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