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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are the workmen building at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) A house.
(b) A prayer meeting platform.
(c) A new cell for the jail.
(d) A cross.

3. Drummond believes Cates is really on trial for what?
(a) Choosing to speak what he thinks.
(b) Loving Rachel.
(c) Publicity.
(d) Teaching evolution.

4. Brady claims that Cates sees marriage as similar to what?
(a) The breeding of animals.
(b) Being on trial.
(c) His jail cell.
(d) Heaven.

5. Reverend Brown requests the crowd to do what to those who defy the Word?
(a) Stone them.
(b) Guide them.
(c) Love them.
(d) Curse them.

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

7. What does the workman say to justify leaving up the prayer sign on the courthouse?
(a) "It's too heavy to take down."
(b) "Half the people can't read anyway."
(c) "We'll put up a sign for Cates' case, too."
(d) "The devil don't run this town."

8. Drummond's first witness is not allowed to teach what to the courtroom?
(a) Cates' opinion of the Bible.
(b) Science.
(c) Flaws in Genesis.
(d) The theory of evolution.

9. Drummond asks Howard if Cates taught him what?
(a) Every snowflake is different.
(b) God created the universe.
(c) The world was once thought flat.
(d) Conformity is dulling.

10. Cates claims religion should be what?
(a) Interesting.
(b) Comforting.
(c) Forgiving.
(d) Holy.

11. Who arrives late to the prayer meeting?
(a) Cates.
(b) Brady.
(c) Hornbeck.
(d) Rachel.

12. At the prayer meeting, who is visibly upset by Reverend Brown's curses?
(a) Timmy.
(b) The whole town.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Hornbeck.

13. At the end of the prayer meeting, who sends the crowd home?
(a) Reverend Brown.
(b) Hornbeck.
(c) Brady.
(d) Rachel.

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

15. How does Hornbeck classify the prayer meeting?
(a) A show.
(b) Something he has to report on.
(c) Holy.
(d) Inspiring.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hornbeck say he is not?

2. How does Brady define sex when questioned by Drummond?

3. What surprise witness does Drummond call to the stand?

4. Who is scheduled as Drummond's first witness?

5. Who asks Reverend Brown to forgive Cates?

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