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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rachel is asked to give Cates' opinion on what?
(a) Education.
(b) Children.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

2. Who helps Brady campaign for the presidency in 1908?
(a) Reverend Brown.
(b) The District Attorney.
(c) Drummond.
(d) The mayor.

3. What does Hornbeck claim to be?
(a) A Pulitzer Prize seeker.
(b) A silent observer.
(c) A critic.
(d) A martyr.

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

5. What surprise witness does Drummond call to the stand?
(a) The Storekeeper.
(b) Cates.
(c) Mrs. Brady.
(d) Brady.

6. At the end of the prayer meeting, what does the crowd's response to Brady signify?
(a) That he will lose his case.
(b) Their small town stubborness.
(c) Their ability to change.
(d) That he will win his case.

7. Before the prayer meeting, Reverend Brown describes the townspeople as what?
(a) Desperate to believe.
(b) In line for damnation.
(c) Fervent in their beliefs.
(d) A flock that requires guidance.

8. Referencing the Bible, Brady claims the earth is how old?
(a) 10 million years.
(b) 6,000 years.
(c) 5 million years.
(d) 100 years.

9. Why does Cates leave Rachel's church?
(a) She found his presence immoral.
(b) He does not believe in God.
(c) Due to a sermon her father gave.
(d) The church did not like him.

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

11. Who does Brady speak to at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?
(a) Rachel.
(b) Cates.
(c) Reporters.
(d) The townspeople.

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

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

14. What does Hornbeck say he is not?
(a) A believer in Darwinism.
(b) A lawyer.
(c) An objective reporter of the facts.
(d) A believer in God.

15. Drummond suggests that anyone who is "against Brady" is what?
(a) For God.
(b) Against God.
(c) A free thinker.
(d) Going to jail.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the workmen building at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1?

2. Initially, who does Reverend Brown ask for God to strike down during the prayer meeting?

3. What happens to Drummond's second witness?

4. Which witness is dismissed, prior to Drummond's cross-examination?

5. Brady refers to the opinions Cates delivers in court as what?

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