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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Joe Clarke and Deacon Simms doing when Jim Weston and Dave Carter arrive at the store?
(a) They are shaking hands and apologizing to each other.
(b) They are beating each other with the mule bone.
(c) They are still arguing about the town.
(d) They are playing a friendly game of checkers.

2. Why does Dave Carter strike back at Jim Weston?
(a) Jim Weston makes a rude comment about Dave Carter's mother.
(b) Jim Weston breaks his nose.
(c) Jim Weston accidentally hits Daisy when he swings at Dave.Carter.
(d) Jim Weston causes Dave Carter to spill red soda all over his shirt.

3. What does Dave Carter do while Jim Weston plays music?
(a) He goes into the store to shop.
(b) He dances, eventually dancing with Daisy.
(c) He wanders off to play poker.
(d) He joins in by singing.

4. From which mule did the bone originally come?
(a) Matt Brazzle's mean mule.
(b) Lum Boger's old mule.
(c) No one knows.
(d) The mule that escaped from Will Cody's pasture.

5. What draws Joe Clarke's attention to Jim Weston and Dave Carter's fight?
(a) Daisy runs into the store to get Joe Clarke when the men begin to fight.
(b) The noise of the crowd.
(c) Deacon Simms runs in to get Joe Clarke when the men begin to fight.
(d) Their yelling at each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the men at the store react to Mrs. Roberts' plight?

2. Why does Joe Clarke tell Marshal Lum Boger to save the mule bone?

3. According to Deacon Simms, why does the town need a jail?

4. Where did Joe Lindsay find the mule bone?

5. What does Daisy think of Jim Weston and Dave Carter's music?

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