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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Cates regard Rachel when she takes the stand?
(a) He winks at her.
(b) With a hopeless expression.
(c) He blows her a kiss.
(d) He refuses to look at her.

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

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

5. What does Reverend Brown preach at the end of the prayer meeting?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Judging thy neighbor.
(c) Hellfire and damnation.
(d) Offering a hand to the weary.

6. Who is scheduled as Drummond's first witness?
(a) Darwin.
(b) A zoology professor.
(c) Rachel.
(d) Cates.

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

8. During the prayer meeting, who asks Reverend Brown to lesson his hard stance?
(a) Hornbeck.
(b) Brady.
(c) Drummond.
(d) Rachel.

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

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

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

12. Who is alone on the stage at the end of Act One?
(a) Melinda.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Drummond.
(d) Brady.

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

14. What does Brady refuse to accept about Drummond?
(a) Different ideas.
(b) Desire to run for office.
(c) Compassion for the poor.
(d) Lack of ambition.

15. How does Brady define sex when questioned by Drummond?
(a) Original sin.
(b) For those who are married.
(c) Inaccurate in the Bible.
(d) Necessary for procreation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who chants responses during the prayer meeting?

2. Before the prayer meeting, Reverend Brown describes the townspeople as what?

3. When does the town prayer meeting start?

4. What is the theme of the prayer meeting?

5. During the prayer meeting, who does Reverend Brown add to the list to be struck down?

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