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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe Clarke tell Marshal Lum Boger to save the mule bone?
(a) He needs it for evidence at the trial.
(b) He wants to make sure that no one else uses it as a weapon.
(c) He needs to return it to Matt Brazzle.
(d) He needs to return it to Joe Lindsay.

2. What do the men at the store begin to talk about after Jim Weston and Dave Carter arrive?
(a) They return to talking about the town's snake problem.
(b) They talk about who will win Daisy's heart.
(c) They talk about the weather and how it will affect the harvest.
(d) They go back to arguing about whether the town needs a jail.

3. What evidence does Dave Carter present to prove that he is as clean as everybody else?
(a) He says he has had a bath that very day.
(b) He lets Reverend Childers check for dirt behind his ears.
(c) He sniffs under his arm and declares himself clean.
(d) He says he goes swimming nearly every day.

4. How does Jim Weston respond to the Baptists' actions when he enters the church?
(a) He threatens them with physical harm if they bother him.
(b) He jumps over a church bench and punches one of them.
(c) He tries to run out of the church and escape.
(d) He hangs his head and refuses to make eye contact with anyone.

5. Why does Jim Weston pull Daisy down to sit on the tracks with him?
(a) He wants to talk to her.
(b) He just wants her to sit with him.
(c) He is trying to comfort her.
(d) He wants to kiss her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the children's journey to the church?

2. According to Sister Taylor, what will be the cause of the next trial?

3. Why does Dave Carter insist that no one in town has any right to determine Jim Weston's punishment?

4. Who else did Daisy visit on the same day that she visited Dave Carter?

5. What does Daisy say to Jim Weston in Act 3 that changes his mood?

(see the answer key)

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